Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

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Which could, in turn, be why Yoshi-P has to give it this particular spin. Saying SE isn't willing to invest more in the game would not make his bosses seem too great. I do have faith though, that if they see the possibility for increased earnings through adding the missing genders (and also updating the graphics), it will ultimately happen, but for now using resources as an argument is more difficult to dispute than lore-based objections, in addition to probably being true, just not to the degree he states, so it's an effective statement on the matter. At least it's not a hard "no", I suppose. He's in a very difficult position as the mediator between the senior management and the consumer, as one group wants increased profits at minimal cost (and sometimes forgets this requires providing something of value to your end consumer), and the other wants increased features at higher speed at a high level of quality at the lowest possible cost. They're not really compatible notions and so he's left trying to juggle those priorities.

At this point I will just continue reminding them I would like to see the genderlock gone and the graphics updated, even if it takes till 6.0.

They could feasibly do it by dropping a patch and, say, work on a 4 month model but say 4 patches in total, giving them more time to focus on the polish of them. The real issue is how much content they're striving to both add and maintain. Raids, trials and dungeons are non-negotiables for them, understandably, and perhaps they would feel a stronger need to stick to 3.5 month release cycles for those, however an extra 2 weeks won't kill anyone, so the real question is more the sacrifice of the one final patch if they want to keep it on a 2 year fiscal cycle. Eureka has actually given them a way to keep people playing, provided they design it correctly.

That's exactly it!...the entire purpose of my argument is to say that his statement is as you say his particular spin on the issue, due to in house politics. Rather that it being something in the actual development process that makes it impossible...

However I have said my piece on that and provided my understanding and receipts. The beauty of the internet is everything has a timestamp and a citation...so if people wish to come for me, I advise those individuals to do a fact check first and foremost...otherwise they will just be ignored....I've only covered the very basics of the development processes in my replies and I sure as hell ain't walking the children through nature for this one...

I'm glad you have been an active presence in this thread! You have always approached the debate with comprehensive and well thought out arguments and it has been fun to just bounce ideas off of each other, spitball, theorycraft and brainstorm this topic out!

Going forward I'm just going to echo your statement of reiterating that I'd like to see the genderlock removed in the future and then just wait and see I guess.