Game development resource distribution should match players' activities.

[Smashington]

Here's what I want to know: What do players in FFXIV spend time on?

It seems most reasonable to spend a corresponding amount of development resources creating content for each of the most popular activities.

Right now this is what I see:

Players spend 70% of their time playing PvE, while approximately 33% of resources are going into new PvE content.
Players spend 25% of their time crafting, while approximately 1% of the development is going into new crafting content.
Players spend 4% of their time playing PvP, while approximately 33% of resources are going into PvP balancing.
Players spend 1% of their time on housing, while approximately 33% of resources are going into this feature.

Feel free to post your idea of what percentages should be allocated to development of each of the in-game activities.

[lololink]

where did you get these number ?

[cearka]

where did you get these number ?

probably pulled out of thin air.

[Cid_Grim]

100% of this thread is speculation.

[Smashington]

Let me be clear. I have no idea what players actually do with their playtime, nor what resources are being allocated to what development.

Firstly, I am asking the question: What do players do with their playtime? Surely this data is available to SE.

Secondly, my guesses regarding content development resource allocation are based on the released Patch 2.1 content, and what issues the developers have stated they are currently working on, along with the descriptions of content that has been stated will be coming next.

Perhaps someone would like to use this thread to discuss the allocation of development resources?

If you do not feel that resource allocation should match players actual in-game activities, I'd like to hear why.

- Crafters, who absolutely make up more than 1% of the game, should be getting more than nothing.
- Do way more people play PvP than I know of? I know one FC member that plays PvP.

[Skyhound]

This post....wow.

Game devs use statistics A LOT when making new content and balancing old content. How do you think they decide when to nerf or buff something? No, the QQ on here doesn't actually work.

Also Dev teams are usually split up to take on different tasks. For example, there is a team working on PvP and a seperate team that works on PvE. No, it is not as simple as taking a person from one team and making that person work on another team.

[Shadex]

probably pulled out of thin air.

Like Square's housing prices.

[casker]

very fallacious reasoning, since there could (most probably) be a causal relationship between development time and what people spend their time doing, and other external factors that affect people's activity (such as bogus housing prices)

[warren-ragnarok]

kinda funny that this kind of post exists, since its pure speculation
second, the other content is there for ALTERNATIVES, so you dont spend ALL DAY just killing mobs to level or just get better gear, and gives you OTHER goals to shoot for......

this ISNT every other mmo game that exists, where u go from one spot to another and kill mobs ALL DAY and log, then come back tomorrow and do it again

[Stryker12]

I understand the conversion you would like to discuss, unfortunately the forums are full of people who cannot communicate constructively.

That being said right now I think square is split between pve pvp and the ps4 beta to be honest any more and they are over whelmed. And don't bring up well they are a big company because if that was the case a never server hub in Europe would be implemented by now. But judging by squares actions they are on a tight budget and trying to force out content to keep up. A lot of there business desicions reflect that.

At this moment they are doing fine I would say, but they could do better they need to hurry with the ps4 beta so in two years we can drop the ps3 and expand the game without old hardware holding us back. That should be a main target along with pve.