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[Khubla_Kha]

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I understand this. And that there is work entailed on the back end integrating a new system into an existing system. They still have the resources to easily manage such a change. They've had 3x financial resources for work on the new expansion over what they had for HW. The implementation of such a system.

They've added MANY systems to the game that weren't originally a part of the starting system. Housing, glamours existing at all, hunts, etc... It's matter of desire from the team's side as much as anything. If the desire was there to get it done it would get done. It's not so it hasn't.
I understand this. And that there is work entailed on the back end integrating a new system into an existing system. They still have the resources to easily manage such a change. They've had 3x financial resources for work on the new expansion over what they had for HW. The implementation of such a system.

They've added MANY systems to the game that weren't originally a part of the starting system. Housing, glamours existing at all, hunts, etc... It's matter of desire from the team's side as much as anything. If the desire was there to get it done it would get done. It's not so it hasn't.

That's fine as I stated it's their game and I enjoy it for what it is. But the general sentiment of character homogenization that exists in game and in the minds of the dev team in systems such as locked in vertical progression treadmills with no means for personalizing you character and how it plays or not being able to make your character look all that much different from anyone else is clear. Again, that's fine, but it doesn't mean it's not the case.

As always, you can't please everyone all the time. This falls into that category. To the team there are more important things to designate resources to. Cool, nbd. It's just a personal desire I have for the game.

[Nezerius]

I understand this. And that there is work entailed on the back end integrating a new system into an existing system. They still have the resources to easily manage such a change. They've had 3x financial resources for work on the new expansion over what they had for HW. The implementation of such a system.

Last I heard, Stormblood was twice the budget that Heavensward had, now it's suddenly triple that amount?

You'd also have to keep in mind that while they have a higher budget, that doesn't mean a system adjustment like this is high on priority, it's likely/hopefully being spent on more content at 4.0 launch. Avoiding another scenario where there isn't much to do at endgame is much higher on their priority list.

[Dualgunner]

Last I heard, Stormblood was twice the budget that Heavensward had, now it's suddenly triple that amount?

You'd also have to keep in mind that while they have a higher budget, that doesn't mean a system adjustment like this is high on priority, it's likely/hopefully being spent on more content at 4.0 launch. Avoiding another scenario where there isn't much to do at endgame is much higher on their priority list.

On the fanfest they displayed the SB budget to be about $35 mil, whereas HW was ~$12 mil.