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[Nezerius]

I understand this. And that there is work entailed on the back end integrating a new system into an existing system. They still have the resources to easily manage such a change. They've had 3x financial resources for work on the new expansion over what they had for HW. The implementation of such a system.

Last I heard, Stormblood was twice the budget that Heavensward had, now it's suddenly triple that amount?

You'd also have to keep in mind that while they have a higher budget, that doesn't mean a system adjustment like this is high on priority, it's likely/hopefully being spent on more content at 4.0 launch. Avoiding another scenario where there isn't much to do at endgame is much higher on their priority list.

[Dualgunner]

Last I heard, Stormblood was twice the budget that Heavensward had, now it's suddenly triple that amount?

You'd also have to keep in mind that while they have a higher budget, that doesn't mean a system adjustment like this is high on priority, it's likely/hopefully being spent on more content at 4.0 launch. Avoiding another scenario where there isn't much to do at endgame is much higher on their priority list.

On the fanfest they displayed the SB budget to be about $35 mil, whereas HW was ~$12 mil.