Quote Originally Posted by Lauront View Post
Ah, but he did say it was a resource issue because they would struggle to maintain their current patch cycle given existing resource availability. All he said is that it could not be simply solved by throwing more money or manpower at it. Not that those aren't factors, especially when he went on to name debugging and QA as the specific areas that were posing a problem. However one slices it up, it does in fact resolve back to those issues, just not in a straightforward manner (i.e. SE is unwilling to go out and hire a team of contingent QAs for a short period of time, or to contract the work out, etc.)

However, it doesn't matter what the root of the problem is - if there's no money involved in solving it, SE is less likely to even bother. Whereas if there is profit to be made, there is a greater incentive to find a way to resolve these issues. Thus the question is articulated in that way. If SE saw that ShB failed to generate much interest and too few people cared about the new races to make them financially viable, they could draw the inference that the money is best utilised elsewhere.
The root of the Problem is the biggest point..... Otherwise, we'd just have both Genders and Yoshi could outright tell us they are coming & they just aren't done yet. Money wouldn't be the Obstacle, nor would it be the solution, or the Motivation. They could just do it if there isn't a root problem as explained.
There would literally be no point or benefit to telling us there are hurdles that are preventing this from happening, and then saying "They can't make Promises, or they can't outright say No" They would have already had an answer....like how they were able to tell us that The Hrothgar are built differently from the other races, therefor they would get Unique Hairstyles exclusive to them. Outright telling us that any hairstyles we have collected will not be useable for the race, because of how the heads were made.