Stormblood Rumored Budget

[Belhi]

The basis of the rumor comes from a SE financial report which indicated that Stormblood (which was just refered to as the next expansion at that point) was listed as having a budget of something like 35 million. HW cost 12 million to make. Being unable to read Japanese I cant personally verify if that is true and even then what that 35 Mil is actually spent on is very hard to guess. If they are upgrading all their servers then that might account for quite a bit of the cost.

[Theodric]

The basis of the rumor comes from a SE financial report which indicated that Stormblood (which was just refered to as the next expansion at that point) was listed as having a budget of something like 35 million. HW cost 12 million to make. Being unable to read Japanese I cant personally verify if that is true and even then what that 35 Mil is actually spent on is very hard to guess. If they are upgrading all their servers then that might account for quite a bit of the cost.

If it is true I imagine a large part of the cost would indeed be towards server upgrades as well as something along the lines of updated options for character creation. Both have been heavily requested in recent years after all. We're in dire need of more inventory space and housing instances at least.

[Medicine]

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They won't be adding dnc or Viera for 4.0... better character creation is all i have left to hope for! ; ^ ;