Quote Originally Posted by Roth_Trailfinder View Post
Its not a question of how much revenue FF14 generates. Its a question of how they allocate that revenue.
Of course I am also worried that the gil would be bleeding into other projects. That's why I am talking about the situation when the additional money would be paid under the promise of being used for FFXIV and nothing else.

Quote Originally Posted by Remus View Post
From what I remember from a Interview Yoshi-p didn't say they don't have the funds to hire someone. The problem was that they need 2 skilled developers who can speak japanese to do battle content and it seems finding 2 skilled developers have proven difficult. They don't want to train someone from the ground up because that could impact of the schedule of the release of content.
Good point. In the longer run it would be better to train more people tho rather than keeping the team undersized forever. Also they could hire a translator or something and get foreign developers on the project with more funds at hand.