Yoshi-P Please Petition More Funding From Your Company

Dear Yoshi-P,

As fans of this game, most of us know that the money that we the players use to purchase items, game time, and other purchasable necessities - Goes to the funding of other games in the Final Fantasy Series with a small portion of it going towards necessities for the game we made the purchases in.

Since 2.0 to this point it is clearly an issue with the servers and their inability to sustain a massive influx of players all trying to do the same thing at once. Not only this but the fact that ALL the money we use towards purchases and investments into this game don't get utilized with a priority on this games stabilization.

I'm pretty sure the debacle with being unable to separate personal and FC housing was due to this limited funding and so you were left with the choice of combining despite we being told it would be separated.

There is so much than can be done and that NEEDS to be done in order for this game to be as healthy as it needs to be and I know you yourself wish for so many changes, to increase housing, and add things players want. So my request to you is to petition the CEO of your company for more funds to upgrade the servers as well as make other changes that you've promised over the years.

Please show your CEO in charge all these posts on the forums, show them the distress the players are having trying to play one of their biggest games ever. They need to realize that this game has a much larger player base than was first intended. I feel like they are unaware of the multinational support of this game and the frustration it has been causing to users outside Japan whenever a major patch and expansion drops on the world's door step.

So Yoshida, if you could PLEASE make your higher ups aware of every country involved in this game instead of just their homeland, I think it would help put more funding obtained back into the game the money was intentionally used on.

I hope something like this happens soon, the dev. team and their players shouldn't have to suffer because of the CEO's greed or ignorance.

FFXIV deserves WAY more funding then it currently gets.

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Originally Posted by Medicine

I hope something like this happens soon, the dev. team and their players shouldn't have to suffer because of the CEO's greed or ignorance.

FFXIV deserves WAY more funding then it currently gets.

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How else do you expect them to pay for all that advertising and development of their horribly failed attempts at mobile games?

I think you're also asking too much of Yosuke Matsuda and Squeenix company as a whole. They smeared the stain of brown all over XIII's series, and made a poorly half-assed game such as FFXV. I'm pretty sure that's never gonna happen. They would rather make themselves available in FFXV for an event or Nier Automata as DLC for 20 bucks before they decided to give FFXIV more money. Oh wait-

I think XIV is probably more than fine in terms of funding between the subscription model and how ludicrous the cash shop is for them (which is something that shouldn't even exist in a subscription model, but this community enabled it). I think SE is probably pulling funding from XIV to throw at other SE projects, or the XIV team is really, really bad at managing money.

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Originally Posted by NovaLevossida

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If you failed to read my original post. SE is pulling a majority of the funds XIV makes into other SE projects such as finishing XV and remaking FFVII. Both Mogstation and Merchandise/game time money goes towards other SE product production.

If XIV was fine in terms of funding we wouldn't be having these issues. Servers would have been updated to prevent server congestion among a whole slew of issues dealing with the servers themselves. A majority of the content that Yoshi-P has promised us in the past has ended up getting the boot due to most likely being a lack of funding and server space due to outdated servers.

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Originally Posted by Grimmel

If you failed to read my original post. SE is pulling a majority of the funds XIV makes into other SE projects such as finishing XV and remaking FFVII. Both Mogstation and Merchandise/game time money goes towards other SE product production.

If XIV was fine in terms of funding we wouldn't be having these issues. Servers would have been updated to prevent server congestion among a whole slew of issues dealing with the servers themselves. A majority of the content that Yoshi-P has promised us in the past has ended up getting the boot due to most likely being a lack of funding and server space due to outdated servers.

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I didn't fail to read your post. I was agreeing with that point. I disagree with your tone now. Clear enough?

He has. The higher ups are the issue. They give them as close to a bare bones budget and then expect perfection. It happens with many companies. As others said they would rather take the money that XIV makes and put it into other projects.

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Originally Posted by NovaLevossida

I didn't fail to read your post. I was agreeing with that point. I disagree with your tone now. Clear enough?

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Pardons. Just the way you worded your initial statement is extremely confusing and looks to lean towards a belief that FFXIV has more than enough funding.

"I think XIV is probably more than fine in terms of funding between the subscription model and how ludicrous the cash shop is for them"

I mean no ill will but the above comment you wrote does read as ignorance.

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Originally Posted by Elkanah

I think you're also asking too much of Yosuke Matsuda and Squeenix company as a whole. They smeared the stain of brown all over XIII's series, and made a poorly half-assed game such as FFXV. I'm pretty sure that's never gonna happen. They would rather make themselves available in FFXV for an event or Nier Automata as DLC for 20 bucks before they decided to give FFXIV more money. Oh wait-

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To be fair, N:A is better than any single-player FF game in the last 10 years.

IIRC, sales/subs from XI/XIV/DQ go to SE as a whole. Mogstation sales are 100% to the XIV team. The MS sales help them add extra funding to the XIV projects, servers, etc. I do think they need a little more from SE as a whole for expanded server capacity for sure though. Hopefully once we get into 5.0 they'll have rewritten most of 1.0s crap infastructure so it won't keep holding them back in terms of giving us much needed in-game fixes too... but you need funding for that. :|

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Originally Posted by TheJarvisMan

To be fair, N:A is better than any single-player FF game in the last 10 years.

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Most definitely. I play that game religiously. But that DLC was not worth 20 bucks or $15. It was a waste of time for extra skins and dlc with the producers that nobody wanted or asked for. All of it is blamed on FFXV for that stupid reason.

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Originally Posted by Elkanah

But that DLC was not worth 20 bucks or $15. It was a waste of time for extra skins and dlc with the producers that nobody wanted or asked for.

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While it may not be popular in the Western Countries, I'm sure it was better received in the Eastern Countries.

But back to the topic - its spendings on things like this that will only appeal to a certain play group rather than the world as a whole. More funding needs to be put back into the games with online and multiplayer interactions rather than sent to single player DLC.

The content we get is top notch, no other mmo gives updates of the same quality or even close as FFXIV. They aren't afraid to add fundmentals and change them either. We didn't have glamours or dyable weapons, now we have dyable dungeon gear and no rank glamour prisms.

If it's about SB snafu, I can't agree. Too many ignorant and entitled folks just yelling over how successful the playerbase ddos was against the first bottleneck msq. Everyone wanted in and too many were too stubborn to do things besides sitting there spamming it.

I thought the issue was lack of manpower?

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Originally Posted by ArkNova

I thought the issue was lack of manpower?

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That is a part of the issue on top of outdated servers peripherals. The servers in use currently are the same ones used in 1.0 which was put in for beta in March 2010. We're coming up on almost 10 years without an update to the server mainframe and there are better options out there that can handle the load that is being placed on specific data centers.

It depends on us, not on him and we all know how complaining threads have been made useless by the white knights.

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Originally Posted by rainichan

IIRC, sales/subs from XI/XIV/DQ go to SE as a whole. Mogstation sales are 100% to the XIV team. The MS sales help them add extra funding to the XIV projects, servers, etc....|

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Yes I have no issues with Mogstation either, in fact I'm thankful for it. Without it, we may not have an EU data centre which has been confirmed that mogstation paid for it and it's ongoing upkeep.