You "like" the way that gardening functions as content? Have any of you actually played this game with a group of people you don't know? Have you ever actually PLAYED this game? Gardening is TERRIBLE as content. It's not a fun experiment for people to explore, it's a way for FC's to make money that pretty much only the leaders use. I've yet to see a true profit-sharing FC that actually works, nevermind the fact that other players simply aren't allowed to use the garden. Don't use your poor planning in chocobo implementation as an excuse to keep content exclusive. I thought Yoshi-P's goal was to be an accessible and fun game? Or maybe you DON'T aspire to more than the 500k-1m subscribers you currently have.

No, this is the wrong answer. You can leave the yields as they are or even lower them, but you REALLY need to revisit the exclusivity of the garden as content. Take a look at FFXI, a shimmering example of how gardening can be personal, AND still have big ticket items that people who put in the extra time and research can grow. Systems in XIV pale in comparison on a LOT of fronts, and it's surprising since last I checked, you were the same company.