Endgame DRG Armor

[Nalien]

So as a rough rule, not exact, Cash Shop is only a benefit, because the more money they can rake in from loose ends, the more they can prove the game is worth more than SE is giving it.

My concern is that this isn't happening. I get the sense SE is taking the majority of profits from XIV, and investing them elsewhere. One wonders where they got the money to finally dust off VII...

That makes sense, of course, but SE really needs to invest in XIV more IMO. The music, lore and world they've created are truly great, but the way stuff is being delivered to us at this point... It leaves something to be desired... The game is great, but the gameplay is lacking...

Hopefully Yoshida was serious when he said they were looking to hire new content designers, and profits from XIV can convince SE to invest in that sort of thing, but I'll believe it when I see it... Once bitten, twice shy, when they announced Diadem that is what I was hoping for, a sign that they're doing something differently at last, instead I got the same tired Hunt formula, followed up by Anima weapons being almost a carbon copy of Zodiacs quest objectives... When I see stuff like that alongside the cash shop, it goes from a harmless little bonus to a deadly tumor. If they want to continue justifying the cash shop, they're going to have to start showing me the benefits, because right now all I see is the EU server...

[Kaiser-Ace]

My concern is that this isn't happening. I get the sense SE is taking the majority of profits from XIV, and investing them elsewhere. One wonders where they got the money to finally dust off VII...

The thing is, that's all investors. They see "Oh, since we've got this new project that we'll drag out to make billions, lets take some of the spare millions of Tabata, Nomura, and Yoshida's budgets so we can fund this stupidly over priced idea that's probably going to be poorly received anyway." And all the dev teams can do is silently weep as their budgets are drained with out any say in the matter.

The Devs are as much slaves to the corporate big wigs as we are. At least Yoshida's team seems to view us as more than just bank accounts and credit card numbers.