Genderlock reminder to SE

[WaterShield]

You're kind of moving the goalpost, they are two separate resources on two separate divisions. It's not about whether someone is idle or not, it's about whether it directly conflicts with the work flow of OTHER divisions such as background modeling, combat balance or animation enough that content would be OUTRIGHT canceled or delayed which again content already in pre-production will not be and if it is it is mostly likely for a seperate reason (See DNC and New Healer or WAR fixes and Eureka being delayed). Which is not an assumption that can be made nor can you make the assumption that one division working on say enemy models for the 24 man raid will stop what they are doing to work on racial models, as the team that works on racial models to our knowledge could be a separate team that works on enemy or character models.

It just isn't a realistic statement to make that for sure content "MAY" be canceled, it's just irrational for the reasons I've reiterated before with ishgard housing and other things. if your personal opinion is that it is a waste of resources, again that is fine but stating it as a fact leads multiple holes in your reasoning, it implies they have one singular team that focuses on one content at a time and then moves on to the next content in order, which is an inefficient way of working.

The issue is you implying ALL RESOURCES currently devoted to other projects will be placed on working on racial genders, leading to them being delayed/cancelled which is just not how game development works. When one project begins another division does not stop working, likewise when one project ENDS a division does not stop working.

Multi-tasking and assigning multiple staff to multiple projects being worked on at the same time exist, money is not directly allocated into projects unless they are something like a fanfestival. Either way again there's no reason to get into that as the statement "If they work on the genders we won't get new content" is not substantiated by anything Yoshida has said, he simply stated that it is a taxing undertaking not that they will outright cancel content for it.

I am not implying anything. I am clearly stating that the team responsible for female Viera and male Hrothgar will be moved to another project once the work is completed... or will need to find employment elsewhere. If they are not moved to another project it is wasted money as they are now doing nothing. If they are let go that frees up money to hire people to create other things within the same limited budget. If they are tasked with creating male Viera and female Hrothgar that is now money being spent that is taken from the budget. Outside of Square allocating additional funding to 14 (unlikely) this results in a sacrifice being made in order to make them.

Whether or not people care more about them being made than potential other content being made is up to them. I believe I have more than made my case as to why this WILL lead to something else not happening IF they decide to appease the people who DESPERATELY need male Viera and female Hrothgar in the game.