PSA Regarding Stormbloods Budget and content development

[Ghishlain]

Does anyone have access to the NA Fanfest Stream? That's where I believe I heard it at first. Koji and Yoshi were doing a little back and forth and Koji said something about increased funding and I distinctly remember looking at the FC mates sitting with me and going "did he just say increased funding?"

I was at Fanfest so I don't have the stream, but if someone else does they can try review the keynote broadcast to see if it's there.

I could very well be crazy and have misheard. But it was after the keynote though that I noticed the 'triple the funding' popping up on the forums and reddit.

Yeah, I distinctly remember the funding thing coming out of Reddit during the NA Fanfest, during a live update thing from a Q/A they were holding.

I'll try to find more sources but according to Ethys Asher YouTube video for the NA Keynote address he mentions that the "budget for this expansion will be a magnitude higher". I'll try to find more but it makes sense if XIV is as successful as is lead to believe, it would make sense that S-E would attempt to reinvest some of the money back into the game to try to generate even further revenue. Perhaps not the triple people want to say but it wouldn't be a far leap of logic to see more cash flow to be provided for the XIV operating staff.

[EDIT]

It's not from a publication and its not official. It's based on something that Yoshi-P said during one of the Fan Fest talks. No, I don't remember which one, and no it's not something you'll be able to find due to the redistribution restriction on the stream from Cleeng (unless you have all 3 streams, Ethys's and Haapy's videos are a good recap, but they can't cover every little thing said). I don't believe Yoshi-P meant that it's "literally three times the budget", but he did say that SB has a significantly higher budget than HW did.

I agree, I'm more inclined to believe "more funding" versus "triple the funding" and I did find a quote from Ethys' video that indicates there will be more funds allocated *Points to above* I'll see if I can find some notes a few stream watchers took that might indicate this as well.

For me, I was trying to find some personal closure about the whole "triple budget" rumour and for now, that part of me fully agrees with the case that the "triple budget" claim is false.