Genderlock reminder to SE

[LaylaTsarra]

Yes it is a waste of resources in my opinion (which I am not going to attempt to get you to agree to). I don't think Blu can be compared to races being added as they come at an astronomically higher cost. Blu was a mini game afforded little resources in its current iteration.

So I see adding male viera and female hrothgar as having a larger drain on resources and therefore a larger impact on the pipeline.

Edit: Also Square did say the reason we got female only Viera and male only Hrothgar is because they felt adding male Viera and female Hrothgar as well would be too much. They did what they did in order to please as many people as they felt they could while still keeping the same amount of content coming.

I agree.

It's pretty reasonable to believe that the funding for races was allocated along with the resources for a male and female race. It's hard to say how long they've been working on these additions but the team has pretty clearly indicated that 1) these are the last races we would be getting, and 2) that it's a tremendous amount of work to adjust all the gear for them which will only be compounded when having to adjust all the gear added in 5.0. I think the fact that the headgear won't be ready for launch supports how difficult it is to do.

I think it is also reasonable to believe that adding two additional genders (equivalent to one race) would require quite a bit of additional resources and the time and work needed to produce them would require additional funds that would need to come from somewhere. The question is will SE give the FFIV team additional funds to produce them or will they be required to make due with their current funding and resources available. We obviously don't know that but in lieu of additional monies other content that could have been produced will have to suffer.