Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
This. This is important to grasp.

They said that they couldn't afford to add more races. And then they have looked at their resources and decided "okay, maybe we can squeeze just one more in to complete what we already started".

That is not a sign that they can add more again. That's a sign that – unless the resources available to them change – they can't add anything more because they just used up their last bit of wiggle room.
They've said many such things over the years and then changed their stance later on.

Out of curiosity, is FFXIV your first MMO? I ask because it wasn't at all uncommon for the development team in WoW to claim that they weren't going to do something or couldn't do specific things only to mysteriously find a way to implement those elements - quite swiftly - when subscription numbers began to decline.

Indeed, that was very much the case for character customisation WoW. A much older game which has managed to add multiple new playable races over the years and expanded character customisation not once, but twice throughout the game's lifespan.