Quote Originally Posted by Paladinleeds View Post
It also has to be developed using SE Crystal Tools (or whatever engine they use now... was Crystal Tools the old one?) - the people implementing it have to be understanding of the code of FFXIV. In essence, it'd be a case of hiring new people. Then training them etc. I believe Yoshi P has gone on record saying finding appropriate developers (that can speak Japanese, which is what they communicate with each other using) is extremely difficult. Thus, while I can see where you're going with this, it is not as simple as that.
Well then that can be factored into the cost, making more apparent to the "it's so easy" crowd, how monumental the task they ask actually is. I swear I hear how easy it is to put in instance housing ,and how easy it is to put helmets on viera and how easy it is to unisex over 10k peices of gear in the game.