Shadowbringers starting to feel like a budget expansion

[Cetek14]

It feels like that since release. Story and music is great, but everything else is probably made by one person. Job design never been worse, and you get 1 hour of content each patch.
Good thing that people start to notice it. Maybe Square will be forced to give devs $2 instead of usual $1.

[Gula]

It feels like that since release. Story and music is great, but everything else is probably made by one person. Job design never been worse, and you get 1 hour of content each patch.
Good thing that people start to notice it. Maybe Square will be forced to give devs $2 instead of usual $1.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...4d9145ad2f48eb

[Genz]

I fear there is no budget problem. It's just the global design of the game and updates is wasteful and inefficient. The warnings have been done since 2.1. Replacing content with "new" (but barely different) content, every 3-6 months, is a stupid idea. Most of the resources are wasted to create new visuals (areas, enemies, equipments, etc.) and then there is nothing left for programming new features and designing interesting game systems.

We even reached a point where it feel like the devs are simply uninspired and plain bored. Look at the ShB daily quests : talk to 1 npc, kill 1 monster (sometime you don't even need to kill it), get 1 item. Earn 2-4 millions xp. This can't be done by someone who'd care.

[swiss_Momo]

the big speculation is that the dev time is being put into an extensive ARR rework, including adding flying to the old zones. If that's actually the case though, then they REALLY should properly communicate it...

[Theodric]

The expatiation hasn't even been out a year give them a chance . HOH was fairly late into SB I do believe.

It's been confirmed that we're not getting the equivalent of POTD/HOH during Shadowbringers.

the big speculation is that the dev time is being put into an extensive ARR rework, including adding flying to the old zones. If that's actually the case though, then they REALLY should properly communicate it...

It'd certainly be a bold, intensive project. I hope it's the case. Adding some new areas to the ARR zones wouldn't go amiss, either. All the better to future proof the game. I suppose they're worried by the amount of people not sticking with the game due to how long ARR can be.

[Beardo04]

I suppose they're worried by the amount of people not sticking with the game due to how long ARR can be.

But what about the players that don't stick with the game because of the end game tho?

[Alsi270]

The author literally compares HW + 5 patches and STB + 5 patches together with SHB + 2 patches alone and points out that there is more content on HW + 5 patches and STB + 5 patches together than on SHB + 2 patches alone.

Genius.

[Liam_Harper]

It does feel like their budget is smaller but I feel like the developers and staff are doing a brilliant job with what they have, it's more that Yoshi's aversion towards certain features, anything that moves the game forward and his priorities on how to structure the game seem so jumbled. The relic is a 1 hour quest, 8 mans are a weekly 10 mins but things like AF glam are locked into EX (not that I disapprove), Ocean Fishing is very complex and the Ishgard DoH/L achievement mount takes months of endless grind. It's just so inconsistent, they have no direction.

[DBriggs304]

When the expansion is over then a determination can be made. At this point doing it is all salt.

[Lersayil]

When the expansion is over then a determination can be made. At this point doing it is all salt.

Salt is a valid form of feedback.