Naoki Yoshida's Comment in Regard to Jump Potions/Boost Potions

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Almost all your suggestions revolve around changing hooks, NPC locations event triggers, etc. These things are not so easily done as you think. You don't just move NPCs and triggers from A to B; sometimes that works, but not always.
In order to be done right (not half-assed) this would take considerable resources from at least 1/3rd of the XIV team and anywhere from 1-2 patch cycles to half an expansions worth of time, or potentially more.
No it would not require the input of all departments, but the people needed to address these things altogether would significantly slow the content patches regardless.

The jump potions are a super easy/fast solution in contrast. It just flips the switch on several values from 0 to 1, but more importantly is already done and would require little to no testing to implement.
Cost almost 0, reward instantly noticeable.

This also assumes it is done in one sitting. I understand the difficulty of that task. It can be done slowly over time without a "huge" impact, ya it still takes time, still takes man power, still takes debugging. I don't think anyone disputes that. I'm more interested in them actually making an effort to do it. Even when the potion gets implemented, because lets be honest, it is, no matter what anyone says here, this is an "illusion" of choice to begin with.

Going back and screwing with old work is always a pain and risky, doesn't matter what department it is. I understand full well the fragility of games. I also know anytime I get tasked with working on older stuff I roll my eyes and "ugh." lol