Lightning Returns Again (Thank you Square)

[Adire]

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The thing is, when combined with recent announcements about content and patches (such as fewer dungeons per patch), I find it hard to believe that SE is planning on using increased profit to benefit the game.

It's much more believable that the EU server thing was a PR stunt and a justification for the cash shop when combined with the knowledge of less content per patch. The cost of moving the servers is out of the way, the cash shop is becoming more profitable, yet the content per patch is decreasing and the same limitations excuses and such persist, and Yoshi is at odds with upper management more than he has been in a while which points to the FFXIV team not getting the funding and support they need/deserve.

Something doesn't add up. My personal guess is that now with the servers moved, which was the justification for the cash shop, its existence will now be to purely profit SE and fund their other endeavors. It's the only thing I can really conclude with how they're now making more cash shop content with less patch content. The money has to be going somewhere, and judging by recent happenings, it isn't going back into the game.