Do they take us for granted?

[Kumori_Kumo]

I really enjoy this game on the whole, and I'm convinced that the devs love working on it.

What I'm not so sure about, however, is whether or not their bosses realize the value of this game to the company. I don't have any hard evidence, but it always seems like Yoshi P and his team are constantly working with way less than they should be, while other projects SE has get a glut of work put in for products that are far less likely to get a good, much less steady return.

Is XIV just a money machine that isn't getting invested back into considering the success it's had? I can't say for sure. But it's hard to allay suspicions when the team is so enthusiastic, but mysteriously can't seem to get ahead no matter how hard they try. What do you all think?

[ElHeggunte]

Well rumor (and it's only a rumor!) has it that Yoshi-P kind of is at odds with SE's president about funding. Especially funding for servers and the like.

[Laerune]

I have the same feelings as the OP. Yoshida has always made it known that alot of features that they want to add is blocked by the lack of developers and server memory thingy.

[ksuisa]

Just blame ps3 and how they still have to support it until 4.0
no doubt they could toss some cool stuff out there if they dropped console support altogether and got rid of that restraint

[Kaiser-Ace]

I know this isn't exactly the place to say it but,

If it is going to take 5+ years to make the FF7 remaster, then try finishing FF15 and KH3 before stretching man power even thinner. If corpret did that then maybe FF14 could get the funding and man power it desperately needs and they could actually make the FF7 Remake into a single game instead of a multi episode farce. The only way I'd support that is if Before Crisis, Crisis Core, OG FF7, and Dirge of Cerberous were the "Episode" and all 4 were getting remastered.

Otherwise That'd be like the 3.1 update, and 3.15 update, and 3.2 update all costing 5-10 USD apiece to install.

[ksuisa]

I know this isn't exactly the place to say it but,

If it is going to take 5+ years to make the FF7 remaster, then try finishing FF15 and KH3 before stretching man power even thinner. If corpret did that then maybe FF14 could get the funding and man power it desperately needs and they could actually make the FF7 Remake into a single game instead of a multi episode farce. The only way I'd support that is if Before Crisis, Crisis Core, OG FF7, and Dirge of Cerberous were the "Episode" and all 4 were getting remastered.

Otherwise That'd be like the 3.1 update, and 3.15 update, and 3.2 update all costing 5-10 USD apiece to install.

Pretty sure FF7 remake is being made with the help of CyberConnect 2 and is using Unreal Engine 4 instead of an in-house engine. So it should be a much easier project for Skweenicks to handle.

[Kaiser-Ace]

Pretty sure FF7 remake is being made with the help of CyberConnect 2 and is using Unreal Engine 4 instead of an in-house engine. So it should be a much easier project for Skweenicks to handle.

Easter to develop doesn't mean they won't spend money and man power FF14, FF15, and KH3 needs for their projectss inorder to develop it slightly faster. If they aren't careful it'll repeat the lightning trilogy incedent again and set all their projects back another 10 years.

[Kumori_Kumo]

Well rumor (and it's only a rumor!) has it that Yoshi-P kind of is at odds with SE's president about funding. Especially funding for servers and the like.

Yeah, it's... I feel like either they need to have more servers that are closer (and hopefully better), or they need to rewrite the netcode to be way more efficient. I understand why they needed to use the old stuff as a backing board, but it doesn't make sense now. Surely the probationary period of the game to get its money back has passed since the launch of the very successful expansion?

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

Just blame ps3 and how they still have to support it until 4.0
no doubt they could toss some cool stuff out there if they dropped console support altogether and got rid of that restraint

Sure, that's the answer. Let's find a scapegoat and not look at the bigger picture here.

I'm not on PS3, but here's a thought: Substitute your platform of choice where you put PS3 (yes, even if on PC), then tell me if that still sounds perfectly okay.

[Jim_Berry]

Just blame ps3 and how they still have to support it until 4.0
no doubt they could toss some cool stuff out there if they dropped console support altogether and got rid of that restraint

You're still referring to PS3, right? Because a LOT of players are on PS4 as well.