You can't "lock" something that doesn't exist.

[Colino]

The only way I would see them sidelining primary content is if the bean counters and marketers figure that introducing them will net them way more profit.

And it's very likely the bean counters already did their math in that regard and probably deemed it sufficient to get what we're getting, like it or not I guess.

[Melichoir]

And it's very likely the bean counters already did their math in that regard and probably deemed it sufficient to get what we're getting, like it or not I guess.

For the xpac launch, yeah. Thats pretty much it. Unless they OT everyone involved, theyre not going to push out the other genders before launch. Given production time, theyre probably wrapping up teh xpac and shifting to 5.1 content among other things.

It's likely that at this time, theyre gauging the player base demand vs costs to add them. If the marketing and bean counters come to the conclusion that it would generate them a pretty decent RoI, we will get it. The bigger the RoI, the sooner we would probably get it (within reason). If the trend for the xpacs is slow down and burnout mid way through, having the off gender's introduced then would help negate that effect. Or they could wai ttill the next xpac as an additional selling point since new races in general are off the table. From my initial impressions, given the hard response from the player base, there is a fairly good chance we will get them, though I would hazard we wont see it any sooner than 5.3 or 5.4.