I solved the problem with this game.

[Omymy]

They can take part of that budget from the bag "15 euros for mounts/glams that should have been implemented by quests" and use it.

[Enla]

What do you mean by this comment? Are you insinuating that they have unlimited money to focus on just one IP in their portfolio? That they should not diversify and keep the game withing a budget? That they should not give raises to employees? That they should just return all profit from this game back into the game?

I'm outright stating that in the past SE has acted like an Indie company with no money for anything even as a quick look at their financial reports, which are public by the way, shows they're making record profits. I'm also stating it as someone who still very much remembers the hell Yoshi P went through just to beg for the last round of server upgrades even as SE funneled money hand over fist out of FF14 to fund other projects. You should never, ever, let a company like SE treat itself like they're a small start up with barely any money to their name because they will never stop taking advantage of you once you let them get their foot in the door. If they need to wait for funds to be raised internally, fine, but like hell should we ever crowdfund for them.

[HyoMinPark]

It also has to be developed using SE Crystal Tools (or whatever engine they use now... was Crystal Tools the old one?)

Crystal Tools was used to build 1.0 (and was one of the reasons for its downfall). The developers use the Luminous Engine for most of FFXIV now—however, there’s likely still 1.0 spaghetti code floating around, and I really wouldn’t be surprised if its continued existence is why some things aren’t implemented; or why other things are implemented, but operate in an extremely cumbersome way.

[Jybril]

The danged company probably make more than all of us combined lol.

[Buzzwords]

i kinda feel like i am crowdfunding it... like... with my subscription fee.

they want me to still be subscribed next month right? and the month after that? we are telling them how they can get that outcome. this is the easiest focus group in the world. companies PAY for this sort of thing?

so not only am i crowdfunding their development with my subscription, i'm working for free by supplementing their market research! i am the BEST SE fan.

what are YOU doing here other than suggesting crazy monetization models that will get them laughed off the internet? why are you trying to sabotage this poor multibillion dollar global corporation like that? why do you hate squeenix and want to see FFXIV die?

yikes, man. <.< you clearly have issues

[Blokeymon]

I might be misunderstanding the OP here, but I believe this isn't so much aimed at the "Hey, y'know what might be a good idea?" players, but aimed at the "I PAY YOSHI P MY SUB SO THEREFORE I AM ENTITLED TO DEMAND X AND Y BECAUSE I WANT IT AND I ALONE MAKE SURE HE HAS A ROOF OVER HIS HEAD" players.

Could be wrong, but that's the feel I get.

[Moonlite]

What do you mean by this comment? Are you insinuating that they have unlimited money to focus on just one IP in their portfolio? That they should not diversify and keep the game withing a budget? That they should not give raises to employees? That they should just return all profit from this game back into the game?

For a monthly sub game my sub has cost me $3600 rounded down to an even monthly number. That does not include any cash shop or expansions purchased. Do you think I have gotten a product worth $3600? That enough of my money has gone back into QoL improvements of the game. Neither you nor I are privy to the info, but does it even feel like even a fair percentage has gone back into the game. A fair percentage for me being over 60% which would include staff costs, leaving SE to use the other 40% however they see fit.

I might be misunderstanding the OP here, but I believe this isn't so much aimed at the "Hey, y'know what might be a good idea?" players, but aimed at the "I PAY YOSHI P MY SUB SO THEREFORE I AM ENTITLED TO DEMAND X AND Y BECAUSE I WANT IT AND I ALONE MAKE SURE HE HAS A ROOF OVER HIS HEAD" players.

Could be wrong, but that's the feel I get.

Entitled or question why the game has gotten so much since 2.0 from the players and receive so little improvement. Or why such a beloved team that communicates so well blows smoke at players with the excuse "Housing is for community feel." You know another garbage statement from 2.0 was "GC frontlines is because of lore so its staying." He would get more respect if he said, "we refuse to pay for more instances and world servers aren't over taxed and thats why we refuse to do instances."


Also players might not be so bent out of shape if the cash shop was a little better and they didn't charge for extras that are in game. This is a monthly sub not a phone game.

[SerLuke]

Crystal Tools was used to build 1.0 (and was one of the reasons for its downfall). The developers use the Luminous Engine for most of FFXIV now—however, there’s likely still 1.0 spaghetti code floating around, and I really wouldn’t be surprised if its continued existence is why some things aren’t implemented; or why other things are implemented, but operate in an extremely cumbersome way.

From my understanding there is still some but each expansion level patch takes away more and more of it, ie how most of SCH and SMN’s abilities were separated in 5.0, probably as a precursor to the class system being finally removed. My guess is they are slowly removing the old code to make sure they don’t break anything which takes time.

[giwaman]

It says we have 16million players population. Idk the exact numbers of active players but maybe half of that are paying their subs regularly so imagine how much monthly income they make.

[Kleeya]

"While FFXIV will continue to strive to maintain a regular 3.5 month major update cycle, we must also ensure that sufficient time is secured for the meticulous development of new content—or else the quality will invariably drop. This is a complex problem that can’t be solved simply by throwing more money or people at it, as it impacts both debugging and QA."

https://gamerescape.com/2019/05/10/l...producer-lxii/