Quote Originally Posted by EtherRose View Post
Unfortunately the "Forum Population" doesn't represent the actual population of the game itself. And 1933 "Likes" is basically an ant beneath a giants foot.

You fail to take into account the japanese population as well. Also, the japanese aren't all torch fires and pitch forks over it like the NA/EU population.

The gritty reality is that regardless of this thread and the supposed high number of likes from one side isn't enough to garner any significant "Change". If everyone (NA/JP/EU) was all over SE like a fat kid loves cake we would have gotten things faster and not 2+ years later. Granted, we have heard nothing yet other than "Hairstyles" but there is still hope in May.
Except, Yoshi-P's been upfront that they DO listen to the Forums/reddit. And even if the Forum population is a very small amount of the playerbase in general, it's a rough sample size of the game's population. Someone over a hundred pages ago did the math of how many "likes" you'd need to show actual interest, comparing to sample sizes used in census, and we were way above it. And the JP forums is also pro-missing genders, even if their approach is different... because that's how the JP fanbase operates, and it doesn't take away that it's the highest liked OP in the OF. I never said it's a guarantee of anything, but that it's got enough support that it's hard to ignore.

Heck, as I've mentioned before, Yoshi-P is still being asked about the races, and is still taking the question in good faith. The thread has, in a way, fulfilled its purpose: bring the request to Yosih-P's attention. Everything after that is just following what he says about it (which has not strayed from corpo-speak: "It's very hard to do but if we can overcome the challenge, we'd like to do it.")