Will increased success bring more content to FF14

[Vahlnir]

No idea, how many times I have to tell people, PvP revamp is nothing new, this is the third of forth one. It is in no way new content outside of the new pvp mode which replaced a different one. So we lost feast for overwatch.

In fairness though, this is probably the most active and popular PvP has ever been so far. It is new content for all intents and purposes. I've got my problems with the game currently, and they are plentiful, but the new PvP mode is probably one of the things I feel they've done right. It's just extremely unbalanced.

[SturmChurro]

I think increased success has shown that the game is getting worse, and the content and resources are being spread out more, with more of a focus on large group and tuned down content.

[Darthgummibear]

revamping MSQ dungeons

Not sure how I feel about this. Toto needed it(that layout was really wonky and the whole slowing section...) and that one came out ok, but Castrum for example feels really weird now. It's another boring corridor dungeon. Boss fights have mechanics which is nice but they seem a bit on the spongey side. It's nice that the MSQ stuff takes less time, but it feels like they went way overboard cutting stuff out. Like the robo-chick at the end...if any significant time had passed since the last quest with her in it, you likely would have no clue who she was since they cut most of her dialogue, and the entire scene with the robot. Similar thing with prae...they cut out the whole scene where the robot you use is the one from an earlier quest where it recognizes you and everything. It was charming, and now it's just gone. They should have left the cutscenes and just made them skippable so people could run them with trusts or something if they wanted to see that content.

Blanket removal of content is almost always bad.

[Lunalepsy]

As the game makes more money is there any chance the quality of content will improve as more resources could theoretically be put into the game?

The game has gown greatly. Revenue will have increased. This would allow more employees to be hired. Of course there is the hope that the current employees would also see raises and rewards for creating a product that has attracted so many customers.

And this growth is all very recent and the changes/improvements will not happen overnight. But at what point should we expect to see more?

I hate to think that all that extra money could go towards non FF14 projects.

Not always.

[Ath192]

Graphical update has happened when ps3 support stopped. Personally they need to update the engine over all so it is no longer working on the skeleton of 1.0. Graphics make the game look nice, but it doesn't change the problems and limitations of the game that are left from the 1.0 skeleton. Making the game look better, doesn't fix glaring issues with it's over all engine. Graphical update happened once 6 years ago, and it's happening again 6 years later, would not be surprised if it happened again 6 years from now as well as 2 more pvp revamps.

No it didn't they may have changed a few things around but the team didn't consider that a big enough contribution to call it a graphical update. Whatever they are preparing is much bigger in scope than when they discontinued the PS3.

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[Vahlnir]

No it didn't they may have changed a few things around but the team didn't consider that a big enough contribution to call it a graphical update. Whatever they are preparing is much bigger in scope than when they discontinued the PS3.

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When they dropped PS3 support...nothing really changed. I'm obviously hoping that their big graphical update is actually significant, but they have caused me to lower my expectations as of late.

[Kolsykol]

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I don't really feel like arguing about this endlessly, I just think you're going out of your way to dismiss it for no real reason and to be negative just to be negative.
A PvP revamp is still new content and it came with a new game mode and maps and complete revamps with new skills to all the Jobs.
All your other arguments are basically '' it doesn't go as far as I want it to/ I personally didn't like it '', whether you personally like the EW story or not is irrelevant it doesn't change anything here.
The discussion isn't about your personal preference it has no bearing on whether it's new content or not.

Nothing you said about the graphical update either changes the fact that it is a new update incoming that is supposed to completely update the whole game.
Just because it doesn't go far enough and reworks the whole engine and replaces the skeletons doesn't change what I said.

[Ath192]

When they dropped PS3 support...nothing really changed. I'm obviously hoping that their big graphical update is actually significant, but they have caused me to lower my expectations as of late.

UI stuff mostly, I think the memory on the PS3 was too limited, thats why you saw the rise of job gauges after they dropped it.

[Kolsykol]

UI stuff mostly, I think the memory on the PS3 was too limited, thats why you saw the rise of job gauges after they dropped it.

It's a pretty immense investement to update the whole game on a graphical level especially four expansions in with all that content.
I think that alone is evidence that they are making investements into the game and its future, ESPECIALLY since it's a visual thing.
If FFXIV was just some money bank for other projects then it doesn't make sense they'd invest into something like that while at the same time pushing out other new content and revamps.

Edit: Btw I forgot that female Hrothgar are coming too lol.
So yes that's more new content that is also coming in a patch, just because it has taken a long time doesn't make it not new content if anyone wants to start arguing pointlessly about that.

[Jeeqbit]

Just because there is less of the content you personally like doesn't mean there is less content overall. A lot of people were dismissing the firmament and ocean fishing in Shadowbringers but it was popular content. You would see the huge crowds doing the firmament events and everyone showing off their shark mounts. You can't dismiss the amount of well-designed bosses in Bozja, Zadnor, the 3 raids and a 48-person savage raid.