I solved the problem with this game.

[Paladinleeds]

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.

Asking for us to pay for these western developers to be trained in Japanese (which by the way, requires a minimum of five years of study IIRC to be allowed to take the exam to be considered fluent enough in Japanese for a work visa for this sort of company) won't be feasible due to the timescales involved in getting them on board (like I said, it's a multi year process to get the talent involved with Japanese). Also, because of code issues, NDAs would have to be signed and the staff brought onto the team (remember this is an in-house game engine that they don't allow other companies to use). These developers would have to leave their other jobs (so they'd have to WANT to work for SE), or foreign developers trained up in the language. The fact is that SE runs FFXIV on a shoestring budget. We make stupid amounts of money, and that gets siphoned off to other projects. Also, Yoshi P has gone on record stating that they made the cash shop to be able to try and get more funds to the team (although I don't know whether that's just PR speak he was told to give and SE actually take all that too for other projects). Diversifying yes, I get that. But for years this game has been run on a shoestring budget.

Given Japanese developers aren't likely to move en-masse to SE to work for them, we'd have to train up western developers in Japanese. So, we'd be waiting multiple years to see it anyway, not as simple as this is. Plus, I believe SE doing these sorts of Kickstarter type campaigns as an AAA developer would get them in trouble with Japanese law. So it wouldn't be possible. It's not as simple as the technical and human resources aspects, there's also legal aspects to consider.

I'm not put off I'm just tired of hearing about it, there is complaining to complain, then there is whining a raging and demanding and insinuating intolerance.

How many active subs are there? 1 million? That's 15 off million dollars, after taxes (I dont know shit about Japan's tax structure) they have to reinvest in this IP diversify their product line by investing into new IPs and the mundane things like, cover 401k investments, healthcare, yearly COL wage increases. So I'm willing to bet it's not much.

Once again, they added the cash shop. Not to mention, from my understanding in Japan, they pay for their healthcare with their taxes (and judging from the mention of the 401k, I assume you're American, so that may explain why you added the healthcare part). So, the outgoings might not be as much as we think.

[Nedkel]

SE is by no means a smol indie company, its a giant corporation with hundred of millions of $$ funds to throw at the games, just like they did with FFXV creating absolute mess.

There are companies that could upgrade their graphical engines, upgrade their netcode to the game and change a lot of technically difficult stuff for a part of the money SE is doing on FFXIV.

[Krojack]

Gotta spend money to make money. Fixing small things like how the inventory system works and they claim how it's a load on servers would be a start.

Invest some time to fix inventory code and then you can massively improve systems like Glamm storage and so on. Maybe stop charging real money for extra storage as well.

[RoseSymphony]

Gotta spend money to make money. Fixing small things like how the inventory system works and they claim how it's a load on servers would be a start.

Invest some time to fix inventory code and then you can massively improve systems like Glamm storage and so on. Maybe stop charging real money for extra storage as well.

That would be tricky because of the mess 1.0 was and it would take away resources from working on new things that they have in their pipeline. Who's going to pay the developers and engineers to do that if we aren't paying for things like extra storage?