Endwalker and Beards

[Shougun]

The memory issue, while I'm not saying "it's fine, drop it" (fine by me to keep pushing it lol), is different than what I think you're understanding it as. It's not like space on ram or space on the hdd / ssd.

More like the memory for communication purposes, programming / server stuff. Like if an npc has a special combination of visuals it's just that one character that gets loaded specially locally on your computer, easy peasy - there are lot of examples in game of this happening with half-race / unique faces, etc.

Add those options to your character and suddenly there is more potential information the game has to handle for every single person on the field. I assume this is also why gear sometimes isn't that purty, is there is some behind the scenes budget they are following so they can ensure smooth delivery (personally would prefer less people more quality, but I'm not thinking from a toaster / fridge computer perspective). You can see they get around this issue sometimes by combining certain features in the race menus. You may notice some races don't get a muscle tone slider, but they have other sliders.

I don't recall if Yoshida has ever gone into detail about it, and while interesting to hear I'm sure he knows player response would still be "fix it" lol so not much encouragement to do so, but I'm pretty sure when he says memory issues he's not talking local like concept. More like having to rewrite how characters are handled, and then also potentially having to facilitate more information per every request.

Which again isn't to say I was trying to get you not to ask for more lol, just thought to shift the concept from local storage where I don't think he was referring to and rather the deep code allocations that if changed could have major impacts, in and of itself having to recode deep things, but also the increased budget needed then to share that data.