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(03-17-2015, 02:44 PM)Zyrusticae Wrote:This view is -- my apologies -- completely laughable and very idealistically naiive -- not to mention TERRIBLE for any business in particular. I agree, it really IS a good thing you don't run the company! Hewing toward marketing directed designs is just one of the ways they actually keep the game in existence. Not to mention that there is a variety of designs (that fits the world lore, since the 'bestial' races are largely unplayable factions) available for us to choose from.Â(03-17-2015, 02:37 PM)Berrod Armstrong Wrote: Giving people what they want -- people who are paying for the product, mind you, is not 'caving in'. When the ice cream vendor gives me the rainbow sprinkles I asked for on my sundae, they aren't 'caving in'. They're rendering me a service.ÂSee, there's this thing called 'integrity' that I happen to value above and beyond mere profit motives and is especially applicable to fictional universes with an internal logic and history that should, hopefully, presumably make sense once everything is all put together, and hewing towards marketing-directed designs goes fully against that particular value of mine. Hence, I consider caving into marketing and the almighty dollar exactly that.
Not to mention, we have options. You can be a cat-girl. You can be a potato girl. You can be a little human-chan, a big human-chan, or run around with the body of a Williams sister. Adding petite dragon-succubus-chan to that as well, things are looking pretty decent!
Edit: I forgot gangly long-necked-chan!
It's a damn good thing I don't run the company! As you all say, they are a business being run as a business, so they'll do whatever they have to to keep the company afloat. As a customer, I don't have to share any of those values whatsoever, and frankly I don't care about the justifications that people use to apologize for the company's decisions.
I don't know what's being read or seen here, but nobody's apologizing for Square's decisions. Applauding them, understanding them, running with them, sure. The game is giving most of us what we want! For those of us who aren't getting what we want, there are other options out there, and avenues where we can voice our desires in the hopes that they'll be catered to.Â
I won't yell at my ice cream vendor about integrity if all he has is rainbow sprinkles. I mean, only one kid in the whole town likes the chocolate ones. But who knows, if that kid asks nicely and often enough, the vendor might stock a container of chocolate sprinkles just for them someday.
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