Quote Originally Posted by Amnmaat View Post
His reply was about the other poster wanting Baanga. You know exactly what he meant.
As YoshiP himself said "It would be the last races but we can add the missing genders if we can figure out how to do so." He refers them as missing genders, not as adding a new race. The rationale being that he could tell Square Enix CEOs that he's adding missing genders, they'd ok that. What they will not ok is asking them if they can review adding a new race like Baanga or the rat people from IX.

It's a very specific distinction in terms of what can be added or not; missing genders yes, new race, no. I know you think Zeylos' every post is wrong it's actually correct.
I don't think it's that simple. SE won't care what Yoshida does as long as it produces profit with the allocated budget he gets from them. whether they're called missing genders or new races has no effect on the decision, since it's still the same cost and development process regardless of what they're called. He can perhaps convince them that it will bring good press for the game after the backlash. But good press won't bring profit like actual game content. So he has to figure out how to address the cost issue without affecting the other game content, because content drought is far more worse for the game than not having them added.