With SE dumping IP's

[Curisu]

Maybe SE is just shifting theirs priorities to a few strong IPs instead of many mediocre.
That would free up resources to make the strong IPs even stronger. But I'm no expert and it is just my guess/hope.

I just know that FFxiv is generating enough money to sustain itself easily and even have spare resources to make other games (FF16).
Therefore I don't worry to much about the xiv future.

[Ransu]

You know you're an IT person when you read the thread title and think of internet protocols and not intellectual property until you open the thread and go "oh" lol.

[Theodric]

Maybe SE is just shifting theirs priorities to a few strong IPs instead of many mediocre.

There wasn't really anything mediocre about many of the IP's they chose to get rid of. Pretty sure they'd have done well had they bothered to revive the Legacy of Kain games instead of pursuing stuff like Babylon's Fall.

Too late now, I suppose.

[Velvet_Lunarfang]

In a way if Sony does buy SE maybe they can give stronger servers for 500 wards XD. Also maybe better UI and other much needed QoL changes

[Breakbeat]

You know you're an IT person when you read the thread title and think of internet protocols and not intellectual property until you open the thread and go "oh" lol.

Yeah, exactly hahaha.

[Jojoya]

I'm a bit curious as to whether or not this will be helpful to FFXIV if Sony were to buy SE. I really don't know enough about such things as to be able to have a reasonable guess at what would happen. What's your take on this, Jojoya?

Depends on what Sony chooses to do. Will they give the game a budget increase? There have been any number of times where YoshiP has said he wish he had access to WoW's budget so they would be free to do things they can't with their current budget.

Short of that, Sony would be smart just to leave the game alone and focus on any problems areas within SE. Mess with a successful game in the wrong way and you lose players. WoW's an excellent example of that. As much as the current players give Ion grief as Game Director, much of the decline really extends back to decision making that happened back when Tom Chilton was Game Director (and part of problem decision making was made over his head higher up in management).

That's one problem with a game's player base. They tend to set the most visible member of the development team as their target and blame them for all decision making when parts of the decision making are outside of the developer team's control.

Ghostcrawler (Gregg Street)was a good example of that when he was with WoW. He was just a Lead System Designer, very middle of the road position with a limited scope of job duties, but he loved to engage and talk with the players so he ended up the development team's mouthpiece. He then got blamed for every problem with the game even though he had nothing to do with the design decisions in most cases and Jeff Kaplan followed by Tom Chilton had been the Game Directors.

Kudos to both YoshiP and Ion for standing up to be that visible member as Game Director so their teams can work on their jobs.

[Kranel_San]

Do you think SE gets bought by Sony? I hope not since Sony is more on the exclusive side and try not to multiplatform IP's sometimes.

Exactly my concern. If Sony bought SE, I'd not be surprised if 7.0 is exclusive to PS5 and costs $80 with 7.0 PC release somewhere around 8.0/9.0 update.

[Curisu]

Exactly my concern. If Sony bought SE, I'd not be surprised if 7.0 is exclusive to PS5 and costs $80 with 7.0 PC release somewhere around 8.0/9.0 update.

That never will happen because the large PC playerbase will just stop playing.
At least I would because a discission like that would mark the beginning of the end.

Cross play is a big selling point of XIV and if MS would not have bought Activision Blizzard then a Xbox version would have been possible too.

[Amenara]

Exactly my concern. If Sony bought SE, I'd not be surprised if 7.0 is exclusive to PS5 and costs $80 with 7.0 PC release somewhere around 8.0/9.0 update.

I could see Sony pushing for removal of PS4 support to help push PS5 sales but I couldn't see them removing or delaying PC launches for a game that has been out worldwide on PC since its inception.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

I could see Sony pushing for removal of PS4 support to help push PS5 sales but I couldn't see them removing or delaying PC launches for a game that has been out worldwide on PC since its inception.

I dont think that would be a smart move, unless they can both Provide PS5s and have Metric Data that suggests a MASSIVE amount of players have gotten off the PS4 and Jumped onto PS5. Otherwise that would be a complete alienation of their console playerbase.

Cross play is a big selling point of XIV and if MS would not have bought Activision Blizzard then a Xbox version would have been possible too.

It COULD still happen. Just if its still relevant today, I heard the big hurdle is that Microsoft would want/require GOLD in order for Xbox plaers to play online, and YoshiP doesnt want that. You dont even need PS+_ to play on Playstation. Just pay the Sub and have the game registered and Boom good to go