SE, no effort anywhere lately.

[R041]

Yeah, this. Also, I feel like SE is testing the waters for how lazy they can get and still have people buy their stuff. So far so good.

We'll see. I think Yoshi's good graces are starting to run out with him basically putting all focus on XVI, and all of the WoW players starting to leave.

Personally I think we're in a nosedive until 7.0 shows some actual progress outside of the same stale status quo.

I think there's always been the dynamic of Yoshi being expected to actually play through the content and understand the gameplay and 'fun' of it all before making his approvals, and now that he doesn't have time for it we're kinda left with him just approving numbers and signing off on assumed 'fun'.

These Devs need to go play some other MMOs for once, not Single Player games. Not Harvest Moon. MMOs. Live Service Games. You know, the thing they're actually developing and selling as a product. It's like they played WoW over a weekend 10 years ago and stopped trying to look around at competition after that.

I'm interested in seeing what the SE shakeup will do, with the CEO stepping down AND Luminous basically being liquidated - What does that mean for us?

1. Does that mean SE is going to allow a faster paced environment to actually compete with current Live Service games?
2. Or are we going to continue to be stuck in the slow content and dev cycle they believe works for the next 10 years, and Yoshi is going to continue to sideline XIV?

He said he wanted to focus on XIV and MMOs, but ran off to XVI. I don't really trust his word anymore unfortunately. I'm not gonna say he should be removed, but maybe he needs a co-director so the ship keeps sailing.

[Melorie]

He said he wanted to focus on XIV and MMOs, but ran off to XVI. I don't really trust his word anymore unfortunately. I'm not gonna say he should be removed, but maybe he needs a co-director so the ship keeps sailing.

TBH I have always found strange the way that FFXIV has this person which is the "face" of the dev team. Because if Yoshi is actually someone that is in charge of the game in the way he is marketed up to be, well, that does seem a problem for the game, the dev team AND him. In general, I feel like this whole "that particular guy is a saviour, so let's bring him to every project" that pertains the general gaming industry unfair to all the workers involved.

I honestly don't blame the team for being recognized and wanting a chance to make a proper FF that's part of the main series of single-player games, but at this point it does feel like everyone's overworked and there's been little attention given to their main project. It's too much work and stress and decisions in the hand of few people, that are now working on two different games.