Yoshida Addressing “Butt/Hip Sliders” and The Solution To Them:

[Roda]

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/fi.../1100-6480013/

How, HOW could our characters butts get any smaller? They're threatening to be concave already!!

There's one thing that really annoys me with yoshiP interviews is that he very often takes questions in bad faith and bases his responses as if the team doesn't have direct control over not making those worst-case-scenarios happen.

"If people push the slider to the max then we HAVE to add high-accuracy physics simulations" Yeah not like we don't currently have a body slider that interacts with armor. Imagine if we had a breast slider? Not only would the robes have to calculate how to fall over the chest but they'd have to react to all that dynamic breast bouncing, and then you have cloth bouncing off of breast bouncing off of breast, an it'll just be a calculation NIGHTMARE!! Not only that but that DAMN restriction that says that when you put a slider in the game you CAN'T make it so that the max value won't cause issues. Darn, such a pickle.

"If people have differently shaped butts then we'll have to edit how they walk" Yeah, like how they had to change the walk cycles when the implemented the 2b outfit. (And am I crazy or do they not edit the walk cycle speed for when you change your height? 'cause I've noticed my character iceskating like crazy at min height)


Honestly it wasn't in this interview, but my favorite excuse was
"We can't have IK in the game because then the servers would HAVE to be as bad as 1.0" ?????? Like he walks it back in the interview, but he then treats it as if MMOs in general aren't suited for that kind of polish. (I know TERA has IK, I just don't wanna go looking for examples) And consider that one of those games with IK has PvE events that look like this and PvP that can look like this, so graphical hubris in terms of the implementation of IK is not the problem.