announcement showcase!

[Recon1o6]

Don't take that as a fact until it is. Yoshida has been clear in writing that it may never be able to happen, even if they want to.

You can be hopeful that it might come someday, but don't keep expecting it around the next bend.

They'll do something since not doing anything will lead to major backlash yoshida will want to avoid. They are signs something is happening with hrothgar as the npcs in bozja get to have hair/face combos that aren't allowed to the player.

Yoshida's habit of hiding backlash through giving a consolation and ignoring concerns rather than addressing the problems point to something along that line. He's also been known to be incorrect, or have his own team go behind his back for things

You may draw your own conclusions given what evidence we have. I personally expect that something about the in beta races will happen, but whatever it is, it won't be completing them

[TheMightyMollusk]

They'll do something since not doing anything will lead to major backlash yoshida will want to avoid. They are signs something is happening with hrothgar as the npcs in bozja get to have hair/face combos that aren't allowed to the player.

I wouldn't take that as a guarantee of anything. Yugiri has had a face/horn combo unavailable to players since she was first unmasked back in 2.55.

[Iscah]

You may draw your own conclusions given what evidence we have. I personally expect that something about the in beta races will happen, but whatever it is, it won't be completing them

Then why did you put "character creation updates for the missing genders" on your list of "safely guaranteeable" things to be announced?

They'll do something since not doing anything will lead to major backlash yoshida will want to avoid. They are signs something is happening with hrothgar as the npcs in bozja get to have hair/face combos that aren't allowed to the player.

As Mollusk pointed out, the game developers can do stuff with the characters that we simply don't have access to. They can add custom faces or hairstyles that aren't in the list.

As for "they must do it to avoid backlash because they don't want that"? They get backlash constantly for all kinds of things. They've weathered the response over Hrothgar and Viera working as advertised for ages, regardless of whether they should have done it or not. (And it should be pointed out that advertisement talked up the great and unique ways they would be customisable instead.)

There is no guarantee that they will act just to avoid backlash because it already happened, and they have not yet acted.