I'm concerned for ffxiv's future

[Jojokomoko]

How many more years do you guys think FF14 still got down the road before SE stop its development just like FF11?

[SerLuke]

How many more years do you guys think FF14 still got down the road before SE stop its development just like FF11?

They haven’t stopped FF11’s development, they aren’t doing anymore expansions but they regularly come out with content updates for it.

[MPK]

I'm so happy SE decided not to add a permanent development time sink.

No one's going to play those anyways so why bother.

[Jaywalker]

Preach.
So many things I am happy for and can’t wait. It really bums me out that there are so many complaints even with the dev giving an explanation.

It’s just a game.

Doesn’t matter how much you spend on a game, it should never affect you to where you can’t even function in real life. There are some people on here like clockwork, constantly voicing their complaints and I’m just like “ don’t you work?”. Family? School? Enjoying the retired life offline?

Not trying to start a fight but this is beyond ridiculous.

This. Also honestly, whether the focus is more on MMO aspects of the game or on fight mechanics, jobs or aesthetic options, crafting or MSQ... I seriously think a lot of the complainers lack perspective on how far ahead FFXIV is compared to a lot of games.

I'm not saying compared to all JRPGs. I'm not even saying compared to every MMO. But I can think of a lot of games that just cannot compete in terms of versatility, detail, and playstyle options.

Life gets ugly sometimes. With the amount of love and effort poured into this game it's worth it to stop sometimes and just remember how lucky we are to have an escape as fun and beautiful as FFXIV. This was something created not to try and control players in other parts of their lives, but to inspire and move and promote connection with others. Not all media is like that today and it's really worth treasuring.

[Enla]

This. Also honestly, whether the focus is more on MMO aspects of the game or on fight mechanics, jobs or aesthetic options, crafting or MSQ... I seriously think a lot of the complainers lack perspective on how far ahead FFXIV is compared to a lot of games.

After living through the hell that was WB systematically cutting funding for the LoTRO dev team until we barely got any content updates for almost a year before selling the game off to the highest bidder, I very much appreciate the work that the FF14 team puts into their product. As well as what money they do get from SquareEnix that isn't siphoned off into other projects. Hell we could also be in the situation City of Heroes was in where it was successful, had a good team, but NCSoft didn't like it's sales numbers in Asia and then closed it down to focus on a MOBA that inevitably flopped. (Hilariously someone put up a not for profit server this last week and it has thousands of concurrents and met it's upkeep donation goal within hours.) Or Star Wars Galaxies which is probably the biggest example of tonal dissonance between dev team and playerbase I've ever seen. To the point the dev team's mistakes caused that entire game to tank.

That isn't to say I don't think people deserve to vent their frustrations or that there isn't room for improvement, but I think the people who are forecasting doom and gloom aren't really looking beyond our own little bubble to see how lucky we kinda are. Could things be better? Yes. Could things be infinitely worse? /YEP/. Does the bad outweigh the good and mean we need a full on reboot? I'm sorry but that's just catastrophizing in my eyes. Things are nowhere /near/ that bad.

[DrWho2010]

literally yoshi-p said in the letter he wrote - no amount of just throwing people and money at problems is going to solve problems. things are the way they are. does it mean we can't complain about it? no, but unless the game was in total disarray i don't think we should be harshing on them as much as people do imo.

[grinkdaboy]

i think they could make ARR less crap

[AnimaAnimus]

They haven’t stopped FF11’s development, they aren’t doing anymore expansions but they regularly come out with content updates for it.

Since they figured out the way around the ps2 dev kit and with the way they are tweaking everything coupled with their sudden resurgence on social media, I wouldn't put another expac past them at this point. Or another game set in vana'diel. We have gotten monthly updates for awhile, but they are suddenly being suspiciously active in places they haven't in 6-7 years

[Jeeqbit]

We just have to be real and accept that to add something new can require going back and modifying every single thing it uses or relies upon - such as 10,000 gear pieces it may want to use.

[gumas]

It's going to be harder and harder to meet the demands of all the players. It already is.

from what i learn in marketing is that you will never able to satisfy a consumer especially videogames customer. The way i see it, people this day demand too much, i though the content they going to give for upcoming expansion is already good enough. with the exception of male viera and stuff, but that's different take.

people just love to shout nonsense stuff especially in internet because you know... its internet. if anything developer should not do 100% what consumer want, hear them yes but only as input/suggestion.

off topic but look at swtor expansion announcement, nothing happen, the fans happy, casual ok with it, general people is the usual "the game still alive?" comment. people flock to the "hot news" and that including those troller, "adding fire to fuel" kind of poster.