Once again new jobs did not get new glowing weapons.

[Gizensha]

So they need more artists or maybe managers dealing with outside companies doing the work? Also we are talking about publicly traded corporation so i guess this investing would need to make some profit too? Would these weapons return it? As things stand (looking around these forums) there seem to be plenty of people already paying for a game they loathe

[Seraphor]

Two years? You're being generous with SE's "timely" manner of doing things. :P

It took them 2 years to do the Hades/Fae ones. (well 2 and a half for Fae)

They had a bit of hiatus around the first half of Shadowbringers but they seem on top of them now.

[Padudu]

So they need more artists or maybe managers dealing with outside companies doing the work? Also we are talking about publicly traded corporation so i guess this investing would need to make some profit too? Would these weapons return it? As things stand (looking around these forums) there seem to be plenty of people already paying for a game they loathe

I like the game lol otherwise I wouldn't play it. It doesn't mean I just ignore issues with it tho

Again, what profit does the adventure plates give again? Or trying to revive Rival Wings? Or CC? Or giving updates to the firmament/gold saucer? Why give us orchrestion scrolls when they can just put it on the mogstation lol?

[Reinha]

If they need to hire a half-price trainee to make 2 extra weapon models per summer I'm sure they could handle that kind of investment with all the mog station money they are making. Maybe the trainee could design better Hrothgar hairstyles which don't assault the eyes of everyone nearby.

[Vahlnir]

If they need to hire a half-price trainee to make 2 extra weapon models per summer I'm sure they could handle that kind of investment with all the mog station money they are making. Maybe the trainee could design better Hrothgar hairstyles which don't assault the eyes of everyone nearby.

That is, sadly, not the SE way. Minimal effort for maximum profit. Same could be said for many corporations I suppose.

[Punslinger]

I wonder what content they should cut to make the stuff people here want? Or are people saying Square should have more crunch periods? Outsourcing might be a solution but synchronizing with external company could lead to bloated management. Also QA would become even harder than it already probably is.

We're talking about hiring a 3D artist to make weapon models fitting an existing style. Modders do that all the time for free, and I'm expected to believe that Smol Indie Dev Square somehow can't find the cash to hire an extra artist? Or hell, even just commission somebody to do them?

What "synchronization" or "content cutting" or "QA work" would need to be done? You pay the artist to make the models. You add the items into the game in whichever patch happens after the models are finished. It ain't rocket surgery.

[Infindox]

Not entirely sure why some people here think asking for more is considered bad. They went and added scythes and sage weapon (can't spell it lol) to every ShB dungeon, and even some dungeons at end of StB and its patches, some of which are beyond forgettable, and others some of my favorites (the Ravel Scythe is really cool looking). I don't see how much difficult it would be to code in two new weapons for the Titania and Hades sets, then make those two going forward for the Weapons + SoS sets in the future. This was a huge problem in ShB for me with Gunbreaker because I loved tanking with it, but had barely anything glamour -wise for it, but I somewhat let it go because I assumed the pandemic hit them in that department, much like how some other stuff in ShB is missing. But now it's repeating itself again and this time there's not really an excuse.

[TaleraRistain]

Pretty sure those design weapons will be the new relics in the coming patch (6.25) since the relics will revolve around Hildebrand. Goofy weapons for a goofy story line.

But we haven't heard specifics so we don't know they will be goofy at all. The new quest requires finishing Hildy, yes, and one route could be goofy weapons. But they're not being called Hildebrand weapons. They're being called Manderville weapons. And it's Godbert who has been said to be involved. The other route they could go is being just as non-goofy as all our other relic weapons with a Manderville flair to them. You also have to consider that we have Gerolt involved and he may not want to put his stamp on goofy weapons. I'm not ruling goofy out. I just don't see why everyone is convinced that has to be how they will be.

[Vahlnir]

Not entirely sure why some people here think asking for more is considered bad. They went and added scythes and sage weapon (can't spell it lol) to every ShB dungeon, and even some dungeons at end of StB and its patches, some of which are beyond forgettable, and others some of my favorites (the Ravel Scythe is really cool looking). I don't see how much difficult it would be to code in two new weapons for the Titania and Hades sets, then make those two going forward for the Weapons + SoS sets in the future. This was a huge problem in ShB for me with Gunbreaker because I loved tanking with it, but had barely anything glamour -wise for it, but I somewhat let it go because I assumed the pandemic hit them in that department, much like how some other stuff in ShB is missing. But now it's repeating itself again and this time there's not really an excuse.

Yeah. On the plus side, Endwalker has been kind to Gunbreaker and DNC. The down side is that Reaper and SGE are suffering from the same problem. It'd be one thing if they both got, say, the Hades weapons and nothing else. It would still suck, but they would have still gotten some of the coolest looking weapons in the game. The devs couldn't even be bothered to do THAT, and that's not okay. It was a massively missed opportunity not to give them Hades crafted weapons at the minimum.

[Moonlite]

Think of it a different way. No reason to add the weapons from a weapon standpoint. But they could add the weapons from a crafting standpoint. While way too late now. Each expansion at the start we get new master book. Add X item to old trial drop. Then create new master recipes. So you are actually padding out crafting. Crafters enjoy making new stuff. And they were really time effcient this expansion at the start with multiple reused sets.