Does CBU3-SE hire teams outside their timezone?

[Ranaku]

I was thinking if they had international teams doing various content outside of their main team in Japan that maybe content schedules could actually be a bit more shorter.

Like the Main Team in Japan handles the major content
Team A in Europe handles Side Project A
Team B in Sweden handles Side Project B, etc.

They have a separate team for Korea and i think China? But in case of Korea i think it was more glam related, that's why Korea always gets the neat glam for the Mogstore first.

Other than that i don't think they have other teams than their Japan team for the main games development. I think japanese gaming companies in general outsource not that much at all.

[WhiteArchmage]

They have a separate team for Korea and i think China? But in case of Korea i think it was more glam related, that's why Korea always gets the neat glam for the Mogstore first.

Other than that i don't think they have other teams than their Japan team for the main games development. I think japanese gaming companies in general outsource not that much at all.

Kinda sorta not really? China and Korea are different teams, yes, but they don't work for SE, SE licenses the game to them and they do their own versions of the client, because China and Korea have laws about online games and they pay a subscription per hour instead of per month. Part of the draw of this is that those teams make a lot of Mog Store glams, which if it proves popular enough the "main" team will add to our store.

Outside of that, yeah, 100% it's just the CBU3 team with some stuff outsourced to other companies. The more obvious answer would be to enlarge CBU3 since they don't just work on XIV but also worked on Dragon Quest Builders 2 and FFXVI. With XVI recently released, and unless there's a DQB3 (hint, <kupo!>ing, HINT) I suspect their main project rn is back into XIV full-time, though since they've kept their ears open about XVI DLC...