Letter from the Producer LXII

[Bonbori]

This is the difference between modders and devs. Modders think "People won't care" .. and honestly most people wont. But devs see something like that and think "Doesn't meet standards, nope.".

Um... but... Hien's outfit...?

I make mods for some other games and take a lot of pride in releasing polished and complete products. I would be too embarrassed to put out a texture that literally looks like pixel art in a 3D game.

Honestly, I'm actually fine with SE's loose standards for the most part. They have the incredibly taxing and difficult job of mass-producing assets on a tight schedule for an insatiably hungry audience, so I understand that quality occasionally has to die at the altar of good enoughness. I tolerate that as long as it results in a steady influx of new glamour options. Enough variety allows me to overlook inconsistent quality.

But please... Since we're talking about feet, if the toeless, shapeless, visibly polygonated cost-cutters that pass for feet in this game are up to SE's high "standards" then I'm pretty sure we're already knees-deep in anything goes territory.

But by the same token, unless they're willing to make feet actually look like properly modelled feet from a post-2010 game, I don't want to see them bare. What we have now is body horror. They could stand to up the "standards" juuuust a little bit on that front.