[Stormblood Budget] Where all the money's gone ?

[Mydiel]

I agree with you but you can't sell somethin like a battle revamp and then said, oh it's just a fusion tho ! Sorry ! I mean, of course you can't make a drastical change to the game...except for an expension tho.
And again, it's not crying over things but just asking why they made those choices instead of maintaining a certain degree of innovation and anwser to the community demand.

For exemple, why didn't they really add something new to fights ? Instead of fusionning skills? Like climbing on mob from clicking on them for exemple. Diving to hide from a big aoe... using the diving feature and the environment.

Why do they tell us they have invested in new infrastructures and then say to us that there is no resources for new customization ?

Why do they make such huge map, without any other interest than quests ? As some little lore treasure hiding in it for exemple ?

Why do they expand inventory instead of making a glamour wardrobe ? Because, having the 200 glamour items from HW and the 150 new for SB will not make the slots wiser.

Why do they sell us the diving feature without making such features underwater ? We know we'll can fish and make beast tribe quests. Why not fighting ? And why a unique swimming animation instead of one per race ?

I know it's hard to make a game and to put it into deadlines but just why everything they said seems so empty. Here again, I want to hear more and to discover SB but I'm not just thinking of this expension but for the few next too.
I'm maybe wrong, but I feel like it's normal to ask for new things in a new content such as big as a mmorpg game expansion. It's not like a DLC thing.

And I agree with the fact they should run over quality instead of quantity but they don't really tell us they'll do that to in their commercial campain. And I'm hoping it will be that too.

[Greywolfamakir]

And I agree with the fact they should run over quality instead of quantity but they don't really tell us they'll do that to in their commercial campain. And I'm hoping it will be that too.

I hope they will run over quality instead of quantity, but we know nothing...if they won't, i'll leave the game really fast.

New jobs bad or boring desing...
Old jobs with nothing new just details.
Dungeons with nothing new.
Poor desing 8-man and/or 24-man raids.
Bad MSQ.
Really boring Side Quest.
etc...

Just like Heavensward, but with less content.

[Daranion]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...nt-development

We just had such lovely talk about this same topic about a week ago

[AstralKaos]

This post, so much.

And to add to it.

In typical SE fashion a large part of the budget will be blown in areas that are usually fine. Such as: Fancy looking story scenes, more voiced stuff, annoying in-battle lines (sloppy! I have the power!) and so on; basically all the flash and style at the detriment of other things. I'd honestly not be surprised if half of the budget went on CG trailers alone; absurd, not likely and not true, but this is how much SE values the aforementioned flash and style over meaningful - in some cases, much needed - content, additions or revisions.

I couldn't agree more on the housing comment - yet another used bandage on a disfigured corpse. The system should be abolished; keep the existing wards as they are but shift the development to instanced, singular buildings for the future. Deep down I hope they only added another gangrenous lump to the wound to have it checked off the list... "we added the neighbourhood thingie verson to match with old zones" before ditching this putrid system for good... but I know this to not be - nor ever will be - the case.

[Wolfleader]

The budget includes the whole life of 4.0, not just the physical expansion. So the question is what are we getting so far ? because we do not know yet 100% what is actually coming out on Launch day. They are keeping a lot of stuff to themselves still.
I feel like we are missing a lot of stuff still. What do we not know exactly yet? What I mean by that is...if you see..in HW...we had one city (Ishgard) and one hamlet (Idyllshire) now if they stick to that formula...then we got one city (Kugane) and one hamlet (Rhalgr's Reach). So what exactly is happening with Doma and Ala Mihgo? Do we really think that we will liberate them and then they will just be more cities...I doubt it...There is more to this and I think this is one of those big reveals they are keeping close to their chest. I wont get my hopes up. But the question was....where did the budget go to....we will never know..but they are def spending more money than they did with HW and some of the budget comes from the mogstation.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I feel like we are missing a lot of stuff still. What do we not know exactly yet? What I mean by that is...if you see..in HW...we had one city (Ishgard) and one hamlet (Idyllshire) now if they stick to that formula...then we got one city (Kugane) and one hamlet (Rhalgr's Reach). So what exactly is happening with Doma and Ala Mihgo? Do we really think that we will liberate them and then they will just be more cities...I doubt it...There is more to this and I think this is one of those big reveals they are keeping close to their chest. But the question was....where did the budget go to....we will never know..but they are def spending more money than they did with HW and some of the budget comes from the mogstation.

Supposedly, we will be getting Doma, Rhalgr's reach, Kugane, the Au Ra tribelands( with their hamlets and villages and temple thing they showed off), ala mhigo, and probably other small areas. They said they didnt show off ala mhigo because they wanted it to be a surprise. I know they showed at least one town from doma, but I'm not sure if they've showed the capital, and kugane is separate i believe.

I expect it to be quite different.

[Elim]

There is no hype on this one.

Dunno, I'm hyped. My friends are hyped. I have a whole group I'll be leveling with. We're getting on as soon as the server goes live.

[VeliusVire]

But are you going to buy it? Yes? Then you're part of the problem if you're unsatisfied with the content being given. Personally, I'm not as hyped as I was for Heavensward, but excited nonetheless, it's just more of the same formula that I appreciate because I know what to expect: Content of many types that appeal to me. If there's so many of you that are unsure or unhappy, then the best way to get the message across is to /not buy the expansion/. There's a phrase that's spread in the creative industry, 'speak with your wallet', if you're all buying Stormblood but then complaining after the fact, then it doesn't weigh as heavily because, well...you bought it, which means they've succeeded from a business standpoint. Give or take, you can't whine all the time but keep enabling practises that are obviously bothering you.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

But are you going to buy it? Yes? Then you're part of the problem if you're unsatisfied with the content being given. Personally, I'm not as hyped as I was for Heavensward, but excited nonetheless, it's just more of the same formula that I appreciate because I know what to expect: Content of many types that appeal to me. If there's so many of you that are unsure or unhappy, then the best way to get the message across is to /not buy the expansion/. There's a phrase that's spread in the creative industry, 'speak with your wallet', if you're all buying Stormblood but then complaining after the fact, then it doesn't weigh as heavily because, well...you bought it, which means they've succeeded from a business standpoint. Give or take, you can't whine all the time but keep enabling practises that are obviously bothering you.

People are buying this expansion as a test, if it turns out to be the exact same thing as HW. Then I can see people speaking with their wallets for the following one. Normally an expansion expands from the previous content. Yet all I see is previous content made redundant, then used for time wasting grinds to drag on to the next update. SE also never bothered expanding on key features from ARR, Hunting Log, Class traits, Grand Company ranks(Sorry but 1 rank was very poor), Guildleves, unique fights for the relic.

We have had some new stuff, but things like Diadem showed us how far disconnected SE is from the playerbase. They made it sound like they were going to put the exploring back into diadem, but all they did was make it the same as every zone in the game a few quests, some FATES and something to waste time i.e timed hunts/emergency mission. Within a few days people got the mount and the minion then all that was left was a weapon with a crazy drop rate. Players just sit on a rock waiting for an event to spawn. If this is all we have then why waste your time creating big areas?

POTD was reasonable and has so much potential devs need to go back and look at Nyzul Isle from XI. We had many floors to do but it was different each floor. We had objectives mini bosses, puzzles, free floors and more importantly we had fun.

Aquapolis was a good addition but I feel it just needs something to make it a little more engaging again puzzles, traps etc. In my opinion if Aquapolis and POTD mechanics were combined we would have a decent dungeon and more fun.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

You want puzzles and traps with a playerbase that cant dodge aoes or kill adds? I also can't see them adding puzzles to regular dungeons, it would get tedious and old real fast, especially since people already complain about speed running blocks in the existing dungeons lol.

It would have to be different content set up for it.