SE, no effort anywhere lately.

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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.