I don't understand why they don't want more races

[MoofiaBossVal]

Each player race added probably adds at least a million dollars to the game's development budget because you need artists working fulltime in Tokyo which has a high cost of living. Each race needs artists to tweak gear to fit them (and there is an absolutely gargantuan number of gear in this game), create new hairstyles for them, create animations for them (animation is ludicrously time intensive), QA it all, etc. They were apparently already stretching themselves to the limit with male Hrothgar and female Viera, who still can't wear most headgear in the game and haven't gotten any new hairstyles since launch. It's also rather worrying that what headgear we DID get for male Hrothgar and female Viera was apparently made by the devs on their off time. During this fanfest, Yoshida said that the devs made male Viera on their offtime as well. This signals to me that the dev team is stretched to their limit and that Yoshida does not believe it is worth the opportunity cost of having his devs work on Hrothgar and Viera over doing other things. I hope the devs spending extra time on these races are being paid overtime...