Quote Originally Posted by Moonlite View Post
Well that is up for debate on how you consider overhead. Is the person who works at Eorzean cafe overhead of the game? The question of what can be considered overhead and what is negligence is where the line is. But we simply don't have enough info. The inf we have is that they keep putting all this extra stuff into the cash shop, we have a supposedly successful population, and we also have one of the few rent inventory games. Yet we have less content then we did before.
SE has been actively hiring staff for over a year for FF14. The main issue is they are short on battle content designers and are having a hard time filling vacancies with experienced personal. That is just due to the market for that staff. FF14 has a pretty sizable staff now. We are getting a lot of UI and QoL changes but the shortage of battle content designers creates a bottleneck.

Also I wouldn't say we are really getting less. Part of the issue is a number of major experiments really didn't pay out. I would say the time they put into the Diadem really wasn't worth it. That would have taken a lot of development time with rather paltry rewards. Lords of Verminion was a dud to. Deep Dungeon on the other hand has been a huge success.