Quote Originally Posted by Rueby View Post
I won't comment much on Hildi, but I actually hated it. I also hated how it was shoved down my throat for the relic, which made me hate it even more. It should've stayed optional...

I'll hold them accountable for their quality control drop and the fact that they don't pour enough into the game that is essentially their cash cow (this is probably likely SE's fault)

Might be abit tinfoily, but I think we're being milked twice
Make them fund the new game
Take away talent/devs from the current game to make new game
Make them pay for the new game while still funding our future game

They may have just found a loophole to exploit whatever goodwill people have for the devs and team. I was really hyped for FF16, but looking at EW I feel like this got soured for me personally. I won't even get started on the can of worms that is DT...

I do think if we lose Yoshida we'll be royally screwed by SE. I don't know about SE's finances but I do vividly remember the NFT letter jumpscare being such an eye opener for how out of touch corporate is and things like....Forspoken. Them increasing the development cycle for patches by 4 months while giving the same amount of content is kinda yeah nah...

Anyway, what do I know, these are just my 5head thoughts anyway. It's sad to see honestly.
SE's leadership made the baffling decision of taking the CBUs that were profitable and having them shift their talent to managerial positions and other projects despite the MMOs and mobile games being responsible for something around 90% of their revenue last year, so FF14 gets the C team while the A team manages and the B team makes the unnamed new game.