Another Eastern Mogstation Glam?

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So are they going to be fitting gear every single patch in their "free time" then? Couldn't they have worked on some of these "eastern glamours" in their "free time", instead of male viera? What about female viera hair? Male hrothgar heads?

Does anyone honestly believe that the addition of male viera, and female hrothgar (one day) - the equivalent of one more full race - has no bearing on future scheduling, resource management, workload, etc. of SE?

Again what you seem to be missing is that the mogstation team is a separate team here. They're not the ones in charge of male Viera/fem Hroth. You are so determined to blame all of their issues on the development of races that you're missing the forest for the trees. No one at SE said "Oh okay so the graphics team decided to work on Male Viera instead so we're going to cut X Y Z content to make up the difference." That's ridiculous. Certainly it will impact future gear design and development, but not by as much as you're thinking. Male Hyur, Miqo, and Au Ra already share the same body type just scaled, and from first glance it appears that male Viera will utilize the same frame (speculation on my part, but there you have it). It's NOT something the mogstation glam team would have any say in, nor would the development have any impact on at this point in time.

As for hats, hairs, and helms, I don't have an answer for you. I will concede it's 100% a frustrating situation, but we know nothing of their workflow and current priorities. Maybe it's easier to fix once they finished male Viera/fem Hroth; we don't know how long the development took, or when they started on it. Maybe they figured the demand for male Viera/fem Hroth was higher than the demand for hats/hairs. Maybe, I don't know, they're already working on hats/hairs/helms because it's on their official workload and it's a bigger task than remodeling Hyur bodies with bunny heads? I can't say for certain.

All I know is, this catastrophizing does nothing productive. No amount of whining will change the fact that the development of male Viera has nothing to do with this conversation and you bringing it up just makes you look like a fool.

I am simply referencing Yoshida in interviews. SE are the ones stating continuously how difficult everything is to add. This expansion has lacked content, and they had to push back ultimate until.. what next year(?), yet they will come out with tons of novelty content, and the equivalent of a player race that supposedly was impossible to add, as ShB launch was their "last chance" to add any new races. I do suspect things aren't as bad as SE makes it out to be. Yet here we are. Maybe 6 months of content drought and a forever delayed expansion cycle is exactly what they needed.

You have no idea what impact the coronavirus had on the development team. And again Ultimate is a different freaking team from the glamour teams, for crying out loud. How many times do people have to tell you this for you to understand? Different teams work at different paces. Different teams will have had different impacts from not being able to work from the office. Unless you work at SE you have no idea what the workflow situation is like. Content drought, are you serious? We have new content and events coming out every month until Endwalker except maybe October. There's a MASSIVE amount of stuff to do in the game, new content or otherwise. It's not SE's fault if you burn through the relic grind in a couple weeks and then complain to have nothing to do. Good lord, it's like you have nothing to say unless it's whining.