FFXIV Needs a HUGE overhaul

[Astronema]

Why are we listing to what the personification of filth says on his streams?

Because rogue devs shouldn't be threatening players with their bluesky account...

[Saraide]

Because rogue devs shouldn't be threatening players with their bluesky account...

They arent, go take a shower and touch some grass maybe.

[Vanfrano]

The most important thing for XIV and for the franchise as a whole is to get rid of Yoshida but they won't.

[BokoToloko]

We're not in a 1.0 crisis, so I wouldn't count on another overhaul coming in.

It's just a huge risk, without tangible payoff. They know that and they're not that desperate to try.

[Larirawiel]

World of Warcraft still cranks out new content after 21 years, and pretty much destroyed the world in a Cataclysm to introduce a new game engine ...

No. WoW still runs on the Warcraft 3-engine, but Blizzard modified and improved the engine heavily. And this is a thing, which SQEX never did. They improved the engine one time a little bit but then they stopped. And now, they are stuck in the past. Yoshi-P complains, that they have problems to hire software developers for the game. And it seems, he refuses to see why it it so. It has nothing to do with language barriers or so. FF14 still runs on DirectX 11. DirectX 11 is an API, which was discontinued in January 2013(!). No one will touch such an ancient and dead API if SQEX is not willing to pay high salaries for it. So they propably cannot improve the engine by a significant amount. I guess, this is the reason why you never see fresh things in the game because they cannot implement them. You see only modified variations of old things.


Cheers

[xbahax92]

Wishing people to lose their jobs is probably the lowest level I’ve seen here yet. The game isn’t doing great for a lot of people. But saying that a normal dev, who probably has no say in decisions, should just be replaced by ‘fresh blood’? If anything, it's probably the management and Square Enix that should be questioned.

Its comfy on that seat of yours, aint it?

[Saraide]

Wishing people to lose their jobs is probably the lowest level I’ve seen here yet. The game isn’t doing great for a lot of people. But saying that a normal dev, who probably has no say in decisions, should just be replaced by ‘fresh blood’? If anything, it's probably the management and Square Enix that should be questioned.

Its comfy on that seat of yours, aint it?

It is always a management problem. Inexperienced workers can achieve great things with proper guidance but even the most competent devs will struggle to make up for the failings of bad management.

[Vanfrano]

Wishing people to lose their jobs is probably the lowest level I’ve seen here yet. The game isn’t doing great for a lot of people. But saying that a normal dev, who probably has no say in decisions, should just be replaced by ‘fresh blood’? If anything, it's probably the management and Square Enix that should be questioned.

Its comfy on that seat of yours, aint it?

You know who has been very comfy for years now all the while lying all the time to the playerbase and taking it for granted?

[Raoabolic]

Wishing people to lose their jobs is probably the lowest level I’ve seen here yet. The game isn’t doing great for a lot of people. But saying that a normal dev, who probably has no say in decisions, should just be replaced by ‘fresh blood’? If anything, it's probably the management and Square Enix that should be questioned.

Its comfy on that seat of yours, aint it?

How do you feel about the situation about Susan and how that was handled? I'm sure that was different though... ;^)

[Volgia]

How do you feel about the situation about Susan and how that was handled? I'm sure that was different though... ;^)

Who's Susan... I'm so lost.