Feed back for the devs and a compromise from the community.

So every interview just about Yoshi-P speaks of really cool things they'd like to do, but couldn't do because it would slow down the content they push out to us. So with that I have a question to us as a community.

Would you be willing to have an expansion with less upfront content, but more back end and quality of life updates.

They said it would be an expansion worth of effort to go in and fix the code and servers to really do the cool stuff they wanna do in the future.

I would be okay with that! We could maybe not have a 24 man on expansion, or maybe not as many beast tribes. We would have to make concessions, but I think for the game's future? It would be worth it.

I think the correct way is waiting until SE expands the Dev team, because FFXIV is growing, and they will need to hire more as the game profits more.

This is the kind of decision the community absolutely should not be trusted with. There is a no win here.

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Originally Posted by LeoLupinos

I think the correct way is waiting until SE expands the Dev team, because FFXIV is growing, and they will need to hire more as the game profits more.

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Issue is? FFXIV is a constant money maker for Square Enix but that money goes to other projects.

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Originally Posted by Izanagi_Fiaresu

Issue is? FFXIV is a constant money maker for Square Enix but that money goes to other projects.

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Proof?
Do you really think the budget is the same as ARR? Please.

They can higher a company to handle the coding for them. This will allow the current dev team to focus on patch cycles without delaying them.

Yoshi-P stated in many interviews "XXX can be done if we had more staff."

we dont decide anything, they do. In the interview I saw, yoshi said himself that he wants to keep the updates/patches how they were before and that they discussed it. So its already decided.

If it didn't cost as much as a stand alone game, then sure. Expansion selling points are the content it comes with, and if it doesn't come with much, then I would want to pay less.

Not only that but no matter what content they choose to "cut", the community will throw a bitch fit over it anyway.

1. The backend code would always not be ideal for many things, even if they spent an expansion updating it.
2. They could hire a team to address each narrow issue people have, and the community would still find more.
3. Solving QoL issues is not simple. Your solution might cause problems elsewhere like whack-a-mole.
4. Sacrificing raids and dungeons for QoL updates is not $$$. We can't blame them for seeking $$$.
5. Hiring more staff and outsourcing more has been occuring with each expansion. The credits in 4.5 like doubled since 4.0!

I dont trust the community as far as I can thump them lol but for me I'd rather they focus on QOL especially now while SDB is still hot.

Fix that spaghetti code lol