Development Team Downsizing and Justification Makes no Sense

[Sp1cyryan]

True, nothing they are doing makes sense at face value.

I think they are upto something, we will see though.

It's almost painful to watch this line of reasoning.

[Alhanelem]

It's almost painful to watch this line of reasoning.

I still don't like how you stood against me on the wiki. But I'm liking you a little bit more with each passing post.

True, nothing they are doing makes sense at face value.

I think they are upto something, we will see though.

I'm pretty sure you aren't taking the correct meaning from their post.

[Sirmarki]

then they never should have mentioned that they were moving staff off FFXI.

I'm speculating of course, but it may just be the people who worked on TVR.

Just think, it takes a lot of directing, animating, story writing and imaginations/resources to produce video/cut scenes.

I mean, I used to make YouTube videos and writing the scripts took enough time up alone.

[Dragoy]

I'm speculating of course, but it may just be the people who worked on TVR.

I don't know about the others, but the story writer seems to have been Yaeko Sato, who also did the Windurst missions and some other things I can't find my notes on right now... and they've also been working on X|V already as well.

All in all, I imagine it might just be Fujito going forward now...

[Pixela]

A lot of what Fujito is saying is so outrageous if I were to accept it at face value I would finally unsub and go install Lost Ark.

So yes I'm making some assumptions they are not being as anti customer as they are appearing to be.

I don't like to throw money away, I like to think I'm paying for something. When I pay money I'm paying towards the salary of the developers who are working on the game, if they are all being moved to something else what am I paying for now then?

Am I paying purely to access the game now? ok then why does that justify full price sub since costs have drastically reduced?

I refuse to believe Fujito is being that cavalier with people that have supported the game this long, to just pile our money up in the corner and use none of it on the game from here on out. They have to be doing something with it.

[Tarmarkvar]

Given that the price of the subscription has remained unchanged since 2002, while inflation has made everything else more expensive, I'd say they ARE reducing the cost of the subscription. By all rights, if it had kept up with inflation, a subscription with 1 character should cost $20 a month now.

[Alhanelem]

So yes I'm making some assumptions they are not being as anti customer as they are appearing to be.

Except they aren't being anti customer at all, you're just letting your imagination run wild.

[Pixela]

If it's not this, it's the developers starving ff14 of content by moving all the developers off so they can work on ff16.

It's crazy how this company and division deals with buisness, it's like they don't care that ff14 is floundering as long as they can have fun making ff16. Then if that does well they will make more single player games and ff14 will get even less content than it already does.

[Pixela]

Square are just not a very well run company at all levels.

To use World of Warcraft as an example (or at a lesser level, runescape, everquest, Eve online etc), WoW and is almost as old as XI but becasue it's a successful product they invest money into it to keep it as successful as possible and as their most important title. They invest in a proven success instead of constantly looking for something new to work on.

Square Enix will hit gold with guaranteed successes and get bored and look to do something else all the time.

With FF11 for example, they could invest into the game and make it far more profitable with regular expansions and increased player numbers but they just don't want to invest into it, and would rather do the bare minimum and then throw money into new projects with almost no chance of success. They are using the same devkits 20 years later, they could of upgraded these any time in the past 20 years and refused to do so.

With FF14 they do the bare minimum there too, there is very little excitement with the devs to make new content for that game and almost all the creatives in that division have spent the last few years and the next couple to come working on ff16. To the detriment of 14, why on earth would you allow your developers to move off ff14 if it's doing so well? This is how the company is though.

It's insane how they operate, I can't ever imagine the people working on wow going off to work on some new game that might flop or complaining cause they are working on a 20 year old development systems they just give 100% to wow. They are just happy to have a job they enjoy, that's making money.

It's like they get bored and want to chase a new butterfly constantly.

[Zehira]

It's 2023, I've noticed they are slowly moving FF14 from being a MMORPG to a single player version so you won't feel forced to play with other players anymore. It's all about enjoying the game whether by yourself or with others. That's all that matters.