Quote Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur View Post
Yeah because them not doing an exploratory zone this expansion was because they lacked money and never was because of the team making those design decisions.


See this is my main problem with people throwing out the "FFXVI is taking away resources" excuse. Because its faulting the clear design choices away into something like money when really you c
Quote Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur View Post
Stupid phone. I didnt mean to hit reply and I cant delete that message on mobile somehow.

What I meant to say was that you can throw all the money in the world into a project and that still wont solve the problems people have with FFXIV. Anyone who actually pays attention to how this game delivers its content can see how they deliver just the bare minimum and expand on it within the patch cycles.
There definitely are some resources that were shifted from FFXIV to FFXVI, maybe not as much as a lot of people seem to think, but the basic way of companies working on new projects is shift some personnel over to the new project, rather than spending more money on new hires to work on the new project. It might not be why we don't have the exploratory zone, or it might very well be the reason since the resources they would have had to cover everything with that zone added just weren't there when people were moved to the new project.