Quote Originally Posted by Lufir View Post
I agree and I actually believe because the success of CBU3, it could very well be a division that gets shifted away from XIV and into making more single player games in the near future. Who knows, maybe CBU2 and its merged Luminous Productions (FF15, Forspoken) will be a better fit for XIV? I guess that could be a good or a bad thing depending on one's opinion on the current state of XIV. Just my early morning thoughts.
Its not how that works though...like if they weren't suited to making 14 what it is we would be in constant decline and we aren't its just a vocal minority on the forums saying their piece. If we take before WoW exodus numbers to now its a steady increase because the wow inflation doesn't really count as natural growth. On top of that....CBU3 is big enough to house multiple projects or as many as Yoshi P is willing to take on. It would also be years before you would see anything again because pre-production etc could be years and that's even if they do go onto anything else. I think for this they saw an opportunity to spread their wings and make something and that will give them experience etc that can come back into 14. People assume just swapping people would make an impact when it would take multiple years to see any effect and I can honestly imagine the 14 team to be loyal to Yoshi P so it would cause more damage then good and that would reflect in work place and into the product.

I sort of wish it was all doom and gloom because then I could actually agree with people however with the knowledge of the industry from friends who are developers, artists etc I'm just more middle ground reasonable...trying to understand both sides rather then everyone trying to be it must be X or Y.