FFXIV: Do you think Square Enix will put more money and resources into it?

[ApprenticeSmithy]

Honest question. With FFXIV popularity booming as of late, do you think Square Enix will actually put more money into it? Give Yoshi P and team more resources, staff and the like. I would really hope so. Just think of what they could do with more teams, resources and time! Improve Viera and Hrothgar, improve animations (Elezen run anyone?), be able to create more content easier, due to having more people to work on it. Improve textures maybe (HDTexture pack perhaps?).

What do you guys think? Will Square Enix actually do this, or do you think they'll just keep things the way they are? I really do hope they give the FFXIV team more people and resources and the like. They deserve it for all they've done.

[White_Wolf_X]

Will probably depend on if the popularity "boom" keeps going or not.

[Wavaryen]

Sadly money is not the issues the game is having right now. It is chip shortage, and just the state of the world.

[Ath192]

We need a game engine upgrade, with better graphics and way less technical limitations. New mmos coming out like pso2 new genesis and new world, ashes of creation are looking a lot more updated. We gotta keep up.

[ApprenticeSmithy]

Sadly money is not the issues the game is having right now. It is chip shortage, and just the state of the world.

We need a game engine upgrade, with better graphics and way less technical limitations. New mmos coming out like pso2 new genesis and new world, ashes of creation are looking a lot more updated. We gotta keep up.

Ah... That would be a problem.

Hmmm, perhaps they could do what they did with PSO2 and it's new genesis?

Finish the story of Hydaelyn and Zodiark, then when the players travels to the 'New world' (as we've been told we'll eventually go to) that could be a good excuse to use an upgraded engine and the like. I can only make speculation though. I have no inkling on how such things would work to be honest... T_T

I *suppose* they could simply upgrade the engine via a new patch, could that really work? I don't think it could... Hmmm....

[Rinhi]

I highly doubt it, I mean, why would they? playerbase is increasing despite less content

[Jeeqbit]

The credits look like a lot more people have been hired since ARR, there has been more outsourcing and the liveletters and developer blogs talk of how the outsourcing is being done and what training new developers is like. The money from the mog station is reinvested into the game's development. I don't understand why people think money and resources are not going into the game.

Yoshi-P says that making the graphics too good would make developing fights and assets difficult, because the better the graphics the more work they are. He has a point.

https://youtu.be/emFem0PJdd0?t=1678 enable subtitles

More developers doesn't always mean more overall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminishing_returns

[Commander_Justitia]

The money from the mog station is reinvested into the game's development. I don't understand why people think money and resources are not going into the game.

If the money from mogstation/promotional items would be reinvested into the game, we would have a whole different game by now lmao.

SE content for at least the future 3+ years is almost planned out completely, it is how they operate, on endwalker launch they will start finishing the end of endwalker and start the new addon development. They are highly predictable in what content they develop, they don't wanna take risks anymore. I highly doubt they will put more money in anything than needed, they would get away with a fraction of the fraction of content they delivered this addon and community will still praise them to heaven. Also it will become more difficult to find people in the future who will understand their code mess, you probably need a doctors degree in ancient 1.0 code to be able to optimize it a tiny bit further. And I can understand that some devs might want to leave the project and start with their own ones, after a decade working for them.

They have like hundreds of small issues that already exist since a really long time, but they always ask themselves if they even wanna fix it, when they could be doing new content instead, which attracts more people...

It feels like their marketing team is better funded than their dev team recently. They try to maximize profits from new players, while older players get bored by the dumbed down gameplay and lack of midcore content. Smallscale dungeonlike content that is harder has been requested for years too and all you get is "they will think about it" . Some sort of special condition achievements for dungeons like in WoW (beat a boss while you have this debuff etc.), or speedruns or mythic-like difficulties in whatever way it would be suitable for FF14 are just totally lacking. Especially now that they didn't wanna develop the PotD lvl80 iteration.

But again, the average new player will take half a year - year now to just get past the vast content it has, which is nice for that player, but once you reached the endgame, I don't think it offers that much anymore, you are better off subbing once a half year or year for some time.

[Jeeqbit]

But again, the average new player will take half a year - year now to just get past the vast content it has, which is nice for that player, but once you reached the endgame, I don't think it offers that much anymore, you are better off subbing once a half year or year for some time.

There are plenty of grinds that take years for things like mounts and relics. You would only get bored if you didn't give yourself goals.

[bass9020]

The game has been making a huge profit before the bandwagon of new players and streamers. We still cant get simple things we've been asking for for years, so no most likely not.