Quote Originally Posted by Amnmaat View Post
Tell that to world of warcraft players and see the pushback you'd get with that statement.
I know white knighting is strong but let's be real, they're a company selling a product and a service, their statements have to be held into account.

They can be honorable and just be more precise and say "the missing genders won't happen in the next few expansions, that's what we can say for now." That would garner more respect than "if we can find a solution to the problem we'll add them."
Then all we get next expansion is 2 jobs and msq (and the same playground with new paint: FATES, etc) that's not going to end well for them. There were already rumblings about how underwhelming the Stormblood fanfests were.
They already told us they had no current plans to add the missing genders, though they can't say if that will change in the future.

What more is needed?

Assume it is not going to happen. If it does happen in the future, then it's a pleasant surprise.

Player expectations and speculation always blow up at some point because players want more than is realistic. It's normal in every game.

What tends to cause the harshest player backlash is changing systems and taking away things players already had access to, not the lack of something that was never in the game in the first place. A player base isn't unified in its opinions. What one part wants changed/removed, another part likes and wants to keep.