Development Team Downsizing and Justification Makes no Sense

[Pixela]

If I'm paying for updates and they stop those updates I have every right to be mad (especially if they announce it in a stupid manner like, "careers") , not only because of my personal opinion but because I know people are going to start quitting because of it and it puts the entire project at risk. I would of been happier if they said nothing and just did it than what they did.

If I see a company making flop after flop and losing hundreds of millions of dollars I may suggest that maybe you would value a product you made 20 years ago that people want to pay to play still.

[Tarmarkvar]

If I'm paying for updates and they stop those updates I have every right to be mad (especially if they announce it in a stupid manner like, "careers") , not only because of my personal opinion but because I know people are going to start quitting because of it and it puts the entire project at risk. I would of been happier if they said nothing and just did it than what they did.

You are not paying for updates. You were never paying for updates. Stop using that idiotic strawman. You are paying for use of an online service.

People have been quitting this game for 20 years. The management at Square Enix is perfectly aware of this fact. I quit for 3 years at one point from August 2017 to about the time in 2020 when Voracious Resurgence was announced. Somehow the game survived without me.

[Pixela]

But you're still here.

I'm here till my sub runs out, I paid for this forum account I'm using it.

[Immortal]

You are not paying for updates. You were never paying for updates. Stop using that idiotic strawman. You are paying for use of an online service.

People have been quitting this game for 20 years. The management at Square Enix is perfectly aware of this fact. I quit for 3 years at one point from August 2017 to about the time in 2020 when Voracious Resurgence was announced. Somehow the game survived without me.

What stupid logic honestly, lets all quit then en masse and see how it does for the game. Obiously they are going to shut it down, clearly a quitter like you couldn't care less. I hate those players that quit for years and come back and try to dissuade others from caring about the game. One day you aren't going to have something to return to. We don't just pay for an online service, theres an obvious obligation that comes with an online game and subscribers. If you don't have new content or things for them to do, you are going to get less revenue.

[Sp1cyryan]

What stupid logic honestly, lets all quit then en masse and see how it does for the game. Obiously they are going to shut it down, clearly a quitter like you couldn't care less. I hate those players that quit for years and come back and try to dissuade others from caring about the game. One day you aren't going to have something to return to. We don't just pay for an online service, theres an obvious obligation that comes with an online game and subscribers. If you don't have new content or things for them to do, you are going to get less revenue.

Just because you want updates doesn't mean their argument is "stupid". You pay to access the game, and that is the fact

[Tarmarkvar]

What stupid logic honestly, lets all quit then en masse and see how it does for the game. Obiously they are going to shut it down, clearly a quitter like you couldn't care less. I hate those players that quit for years and come back and try to dissuade others from caring about the game. One day you aren't going to have something to return to. We don't just pay for an online service, theres an obvious obligation that comes with an online game and subscribers. If you don't have new content or things for them to do, you are going to get less revenue.

So was I supposed to pay a monthly subscription for a service I didn't use?

Of course they would lose money if they never added any new content. That doesn't mean new content is a right. It just means that it's probably a good business decision for as long as the people who actually have access to the company's financial data decide it's not.

[Alhanelem]

If I'm paying for updates and they stop those updates I have every right to be mad (especially if they announce it in a stupid manner like, "careers") , not only because of my personal opinion but because I know people are going to start quitting because of it and it puts the entire project at risk. I would of been happier if they said nothing and just did it than what they did.

If I see a company making flop after flop and losing hundreds of millions of dollars I may suggest that maybe you would value a product you made 20 years ago that people want to pay to play still.

If I see a company and I feel about it the way that you seem to, I would stop being their customer and move on to something else. But you're still here.

[Zehira]

I like every employee (outside of SE included) to be happy and doesn't really have to depend on customers. Personally, I enjoy the Lv75 cap more because I miss playing RDM75/NIN37.

[Alhanelem]

Whatever you did at 75 you can do better at 99, its not like anything went away

I am the opposite, they took too long to increase the level cap and that's the real reason ppl got attached to it. I like the new range of abilities we gained in the process, it definitely did add more to some jobs than others though. All of my favorite jobs got a lot out of it, even PUP became considerably more useful. I accept that time goes on and MMOs change over time.

Nobody seems to miss 50 cap, or 65 cap, or 80 cap. Why? Because the game didn't stay in any of those spots for very long. 75 cap stayed for a long time, so people were used to it, it was that simple.

[Zehira]

I am the opposite, they took too long to increase the level cap and that's the real reason ppl got attached to it. I like the new range of abilities we gained in the process,

No, they already turned FFXI into XIV fast paced battle endgame. People use third party tools to track us and even on voice chat (I can't use it). Too much stressful being a RDM.

I like the old way. Slow paced battle that gives us time to type and chat.