Yoshi P does not have an Infinity Gauntlet

[Reinfeld]

To add to the "They cant just magically add features" discussion. They also, whether 'voluntary' or not, should not be using their free time to implement basic features onto the new races. If such extra work is needed I'd have preferred any new races be saved for 6.0. Don't get me wrong, it's amazing that they went and did it, but they shouldn't have to.

Just due to the work involved in the patch-by-patch upkeep, even if they had waiting for 6.0 we'd be in the same situation. Basically like he said in his letter, the only way we might get more races in the future is if the technology advances to a point where they can make the gear alterations more easily or they find a simple systematic shortcut.

[Sclair0]

Just due to the work involved in the patch-by-patch upkeep, even if they had waiting for 6.0 we'd be in the same situation. Basically like he said in his letter, the only way we might get more races in the future is if the technology advances to a point where they can make the gear alterations more easily or they find a simple systematic shortcut.

I'm not so sure your mathematics here is correct. If hrothgar and viera were developed to the state they were now, but were given another expansion development cycle prior to their official launch then they wouldn't have to work on them from scratch, they'd be able to use the beginning of the next expansion development period to finish the features they'd already developed, instead of having to 'voluntarily' put in work in their free time

If it IS impossible without out of hours work then I don't think adding more races was reasonable, or at least adding two races that BOTH required different unique work done to make gear usable on them wasn't reasonable.

[Reynhart]

I'm not so sure your mathematics here is correct. If hrothgar and viera were developed to the state they were now, but were given another expansion development cycle prior to their official launch then they wouldn't have to work on them from scratch, they'd be able to use the beginning of the next expansion development period to finish the features they'd already developed, instead of having to 'voluntarily' put in work in their free time

The problem is not adding Viera and Hrothgar. It's that now that they're here, every future gear will take more time to implement to include their body type, as will every future skill and emote. Which can be an issue if they want to keep the current pace for patches.

Frankly, since races offer nothing gameplay wise, I don't even understand why they're so adamant on adding new ones. XI lived peacefully with its 5 races from the very beginning.