Remove Reduction of Loot for others in Savage.

[thegreatonemal]

To Square, yes. Square is a company first and foremost. Their systems are made on cold, heartless math, statistics and theoretical simulations that they project will keep people subbed longer without being too harsh. They want to keep gear distribution at 2 chests/8 players, and thus have to squash out any possibility of loopholes, as there's just as many players that will abuse them.

(See: any of the previous exploits/loopholes/etc that have been in-game before. Adding queue penalties because some sour apples kept withdrawing to fish for in-prog queues or leaving if they don't get the dungeon they want with zero repercussions, adding in forced log-offs each day during the opening of Stormblood due to people abusing systems to avoid the auto-kick, job-switching to super level BLU solo in less than an hour, literally changing the terrain of boss rooms and forever making boss arenas flat due to people LOS & height abusing bosses (Most notably Twintania), etc.)

Welcome to game development, where impressing your boss with your financials is pretty integral to secure yourself a nice budget for your ongoing game in the future.

You do know this is the same game that director encourages people to unsub if they get done everything they want to do right. You all have a warped view of how money in a company works.
Our subs do not keep this game running.

[Xatsh]

You do know this is the same game that director encourages people to unsub if they get done everything they want to do right. You all have a warped view of how money in a company works.
Our subs do not keep this game running.

Our subs 100% do, trust me everyone unsubs, the game will shut down. It makes them money, alot of money, so development continues. If it stops making them alot of money it gets put on maintenance mode. They are a company if a project is not profitable anymore and has no chance of being profitable it will be shuttered and resources will be invested elsewhere. Even with the FFXIV 1.0 failure.. it was only redone to protect the IP from permanent damage. 3.0+ happened because it the remake was successful and made them money. $$$ is everything in a corporation. We are lucky SE was looking longterm at the franchise and not just ffxiv as a game or this would been shutdown before 2.0 ever launched.

As for Yoshida... his comments on unsubing if you run out of content and wait to a new expansion/patch is one of the underlying problems with this game and why there are such large fluxes in playerbase. A healthy mmo should never run out of content for anyone, this is a resent problem in mmos and due to casual focus with long development time. MMOs have to have longterm content to keep the playerbase engaged for the long haul, ffxiv has none.

[DrWho2010]

As for Yoshida... his comments on unsubing if you run out of content and wait to a new expansion/patch is one of the underlying problems with this game and why there are such large fluxes in playerbase. A healthy mmo should never run out of content for anyone, this is a resent problem in mmos and due to casual focus with long development time. MMOs have to have longterm content to keep the playerbase engaged for the long haul, ffxiv has none.

Or he realizes that we have many other demands on our time these days like family, friends, other games, other pursuits, netflix, movies, tabletop games, etc. etc. He knows that we shouldn't be putting all our time into this game 24/7. he makes statements like that because he wants people to be able to jump in and out of the game at will and not miss anything.