Quote Originally Posted by Cylla View Post
Lack of funding I find hard to believe. There may not be 10mil+ people paying for their subs but I'm pretty sure we've got a huge active player base. Add that on top of their Mog Station purchases made and there should be more then enough to at least apply a fix that is reasonable.
The funding problem is not because not enough people play the game though. At this point it's pretty obvious that less than 20% of the money Final Fantasy XIV makes is invested in the game.
What a lot of people think happens is: Playerbase pays > Money is made > Square Enix profits > Profit money is used to improve the game.
But in reality what is mosty likely to happen is: Playerbase pays > Money is made > Square Enix profits > Profit is used on other projects, most completely unrelated to Final Fantasy XIV at all, and just the bare minimum returns to the game for further development.

So unless Square Enix decides to stop treating this game as an afterthought within the company and increase the budget that returns to the team for further development, there are several issues that won't be fixed anytime soon, because the development team simply can't work with a budget they don't have.

It's a case of "My boss wants us to keep the sales high but refuses to let us use higher quality ingredients to do it better".