What would you do if you had control over FFXIV?

[Dragonblanco]

Has the team ever specified that money was the reason why they couldn't implement things or why things get cut as people say? Because I don't think Yoshi P or anyone else in the dev says money just "resources" or "time" right? I see everyone say that we must be losing stuff or whatever because "All of XIV budget is clearly being siphoned into some other game!" with little to no evidence other than speculation from what I've seen but I don't mind being proven wrong here

Agreed. I've never seen anything about lack of budget. What some speculation has been though is that they are putting more of the budget on a future game. When we saw that they announced the graphics engine needs upgraded but they want to wait, combined with the idea of them having been recruiting for a project following FFXIV, it might be that they "end" FFXIV with Endwalker and then move on to something else that will have the better graphics and other things involved. If they do that, it'll be interesting to see if we start off from scratch or if they'll build it on top of what we have somehow.

Btw, sources of what I'm talking about are
https://www.rpgsite.net/news/9790-fi...s-as-fake-news
https://gamingbolt.com/final-fantasy...engine-someday

[KizuyaKatogami]

Agreed. I've never seen anything about lack of budget. What some speculation has been though is that they are putting more of the budget on a future game. When we saw that they announced the graphics engine needs upgraded but they want to wait, combined with the idea of them having been recruiting for a project following FFXIV, it might be that they "end" FFXIV with Endwalker and then move on to something else that will have the better graphics and other things involved. If they do that, it'll be interesting to see if we start off from scratch or if they'll build it on top of what we have somehow.

Btw, sources of what I'm talking about are
https://www.rpgsite.net/news/9790-fi...s-as-fake-news
https://gamingbolt.com/final-fantasy...engine-someday

They kind of completely denounced the claims of another game when they said they got the okay form higher ups to keep the game going for at least around 10 more years so... dont see another game on the horizon. Only thing i do know is that a lot of the team behind HW was put towards ff16. Which is highly unfortunate considering how already scarce the dev team is.