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

[Jin-]

I doubt female Roe or highlander were that profitable.

[DamianFatale]

I doubt female Roe or highlander were that profitable.

They weren't races that were added post a realm reborn.. so why would they have been.

[Divinemights]

They weren't races that were added post a realm reborn.. so why would they have been.

More race didn’t help WoW much isn’t it. One time fast food type player don’t help mmorpg at all. Quality content is what matters

[Khalithar]

From Yoshi-p himself:


https://www.siliconera.com/naoki-yos...hadowbringers/

Lame pathetic excuses. Developing things is literally their job and they shouldn’t get a pass because “it’s too hard” or whatever. If this were an indie game developer I would absolutely give them a pass. But this is square enix we’re talking about here, they have the money/staff to accomplish it.

[lezard21]

The new races will add more income significantly

HOW could you even know this, where is the market study? Some of you guys really...

[Kaurhz]

It becomes more of an issue when you need to adjust the umpteenth pieces of gear they have for each of the new races, and the genders on those races. Not only that it's a significant amount of time and effort to maintain those races going forward.

If I'm being honest going forward I do think they should focus less on adding new races; halting that entirely as per their original plan, and just expanding on the customization features already available for the present races. The biggest annoyance for me with the game currently is just the lack of customization available.. It'd be nice to mix and match the features either intraracial (mouths etc. from different faces) or interracial. But then I guess that in itself becomes a very complex endeavour

[lezard21]

Lame pathetic excuses. Developing things is literally their job and they shouldn’t get a pass because “it’s too hard” or whatever. If this were an indie game developer I would absolutely give them a pass. But this is square enix we’re talking about here, they have the money/staff to accomplish it.

Ok, now I AM going to play Squarenix's lawyer because you said something dumb. You DO know that squarenix has other games and projects aside from FFXIV. HUGE projects that require a lot of money and staff investment, to name a few: the whole FFVII remake project including the mobile version games, the Kingdom Hearts franchise, FFXVI, Forspoken, and who knows what others they have on the cutting board. And that any rushed decision they take in any of those projects that does not end up breaking even risks affecting the other projects and the whole thing snowballing?

I feel like you throw the "bIg CoMpAnY" term around thinking it means they have infinite resources, both monetary and human, and that any investment they take will only net positive figures. The bigger the company the bigger the resources, true, but also the bigger the consequences for a bad decision. When talking about big companies we are talking about millions of dollars lost on a bad decision, having to cut hundreds to thousands of people off, losing investors, having to cancel projects, etc. And this is a company that in the past 20 years has seen 3 to 4 crisis due to bad decision making.

[Equitable_Remedy]

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

SE announced male viera not even a day ago. Read the room, friend.

[Infindox]

Less races more work on what we have now (not counting female Hrothgar which they said we're coming later). I want more options of what we have and hats for the ones that can't have.

[AriesMouse]

They are min/maxing the game. Min amount of work for max amount of money. Why do they sell a whale for $30? They must have numbers that support whatever decisions they make.

They literally said when the whale was first announced that it was an item people could buy (if they wanted), to give them money since they weren't charging people to go to/see/watch fanfest.

Compared to companies like Blizzard, SE is putting in a lot of effort/work for this game, and to discredit that is honestly kind of an insult.