Quote Originally Posted by Haruka_R View Post
FFXIV income going to other projects, technical limitations
For the game overall, these are my top two issues as well. By all accounts, FF14 is doing extremely well right now and yet it feels like it's essentially being used to bankroll everything at SE but more FF14 (or, at the least, a successor to FF14). And this ties into the technical limitations issue. Because of the work that FF14 seems to require to make even what seem like basic changes/improvements, it does require a bigger investment in time, money and talent than it's currently getting. For all of the excellent work the devs we have do, it still feels like we're constantly running into "we can't do this because tech" as the reason behind the "no." Frankly, I don't really see the game being able to truly grow much beyond where we are now without much bigger (and earned) investment.

The other major issue the game seems to be having, at least if you pay attention to the more vocal bits of the user base, is the constantly growing divide between casual and hardcore play. The game feels more and more designed for a more casual audience but keeps making overtures to it's hardcore base but the developer response to the issue feels mostly like a big shrug. I really don't know what the solution for this is but the developers basically ignoring it and/or playing dumb isn't helping.