Creative Studio 3 is working on multiple projects at once.

[Hallarem]

Its honestly sickening how much some people cling to the status quo. No, Im not interested in the "work flow and staggered projects"
Why don't some people want this game to be the main focus, were paying a MONTHLY fee for this. The game lacks polish and anyone can tell if a team focuses on multiple things at once, said polish will be lacking. Ill fire back with a simplification as well "Can you eat ten hotdogs at once? Yeah probably, but it wont be pretty and its far from efficient."

Any "they can do multiple things at once" is negated by the.. how many years of lack of Viera and Hrot hats now? They still have a graphical update to complete too. Lack.of.polish.

[Tunda]

Can we stop? really can we stop?

when CBU3 developed FFXVI we getting less and less content with not only that bet worst improvement since ShB

can SE care about us FFXIV players?

[CaptainLagbeard]

They're overworking CS3 because everything else when it comes to games is turning into shit.

FFXIV and Gacha are probably only things when it comes to gaming that's making them money. XVI will remain to be seen when it finally comes out to PC in two weeks...
Everything else is being met with indifference at best.

[ZenoDiogenes]

Quick reminder that they also added ~1,5months to the patch cycle by now. Imagine if they invested that time into xiv instead.
People can cope all they want, but this low effort game is in maintenance mode.

[Connor]

Why are people acting surprised like this hasn’t been going on since Shadowbringers? I thought it was common knowledge only a small fraction of CBU3’s resources go into ffxiv at this point. I mean look how low-effort everything became after Stormblood

[NoonDawn]

i thought we all knew Square sends no resources to the FFXIV team lol

[Hanayumi]

Can we stop? really can we stop?

when CBU3 developed FFXVI we getting less and less content with not only that bet worst improvement since ShB

can SE care about us FFXIV players?

Thats false, theres been way more content added every expansion with at least 1 thing being entirely new. It can be very hit and miss and sure not all content is for everyone but to say were getting less or that theyre not trying new things, very untrue... Id say their most glaring mistake that very much shows the lack of development and testing at the moment is the job balance...

[MisterNublet]

Ff16 started development during heavensward lol.

Are you trying to say that shadowbringers was terrible?

Was Shadowbringers MSQ terrible? Absolutely not.

Was a lot of the design decisions that started in ShB that has been carried through to DawnTrail that people are finally realizing isn't so great? Yes.

And again with the maintenance mode garbage. Anyone who thinks this game is in maintenance mode has never actually played a game in maintenance mode.

While it isn't maintenance mode, it doesn't quite feel like the devs are evolving or experimenting. Everything has been quite cookie cutter for the last 3 expansions.

[Sacae]

Endwalker's development was hit with the double-whammy of Covid and XVI entering the final stages of development. I don't see Dawntrail suffering the same problems.

[LittleArrow]

Classic Square Enix. What? There's a team that is absolutely magic together and created a game that will not only stand the test of time, but be a favorite piece of media for generations??? QUICK! DISBAND THEM AND PROMOTE THEM SO THEY NO LONGER DO THE THING THEY WERE SO GOOD AT AND INSTEAD GIVE IT TO A BUNCH OF RANDOM AMATEURS THAT HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND LET THEM TOTALLY MESS UP THE ENTIRE BRAND!!

Literally Square Enix no longer surprises me in how much they adore speed running destroying any of their success. Great job SE and Yoshi for taking your best writers and outsourcing them to projects that will most likely fail. Can't wait for more of that top tier Dawntrail writing where our WoL has no agency, babysits a spoiled child that learns nothing or grows as an individual, oks genociding an form of life that can grow and make their own decisions instead of trying to find numerous solutions that we've used in the past, and so many more great quality writing!

Oh but sorry, SE can't afford enough servers or to offer instance housing to their loyal fanbase that's now bankrolling all of the projects that are killing the quality of FFXIV instead of investing to provide a house for people who have been literally begging for it for years...

Poor indie game problems... hope those other projects was worth the failure of DT!