Lack of updates on Viera and Hrothgar.

[Alleo]

Main issue is we as the player base do not know how much of that income goes back into FFXIV. Though I suspect it is a small fraction, FFXIV revune is probably funneled into different projects.

As another poster mentioned that is business.

Of course but we dont have to be happy about it. We are paying for this product and not the creation of another. They can use the money for those too but they should at least keep enough of it here to give us the basics each time and built on them. Instead we get more subscriptions, more cash through cash shop items(which according to Yoshida goes fully back into this game) and merchandise and yet we get less of the basics and any new addition is a big hit or miss..Its just strange how even the cash shop is getting bigger..but I dont get the feeling that its showing in the game itself.

(And lets not forget that Yoshida is on the board of directors. He should have some influence)

[Beardo04]

Most likely we'll see a big rework of both races with both genders for 6.0 . That's my guess.

[Melichoir]

I dont think COVID is going to affect the dev cycle that much, atleast not in the capacity that people are saying. They have already addressed cutting back or down on current seasonal content due to it, but it's also likely that the anticipated launch date for hte next xpac will have also got pushed back a little bit to compensate for some of the time lost. We're not talking about them losing a year of dev time, just a few months of slow down. And wasnt most of the issue with it more about testing out current raid and dungeon content, not necessarily development issues itself.

[Amnmaat]

In fact, they removed palace of the dead and didn't replace it with anything.

[Enla]

In fact, they removed palace of the dead and didn't replace it with anything.

They're replacing it with the new iteration of Eureka. Whether you like it or not is another matter entirely, but they ARE replacing it with something.

[Amnmaat]

They're replacing it with the new iteration of Eureka. Whether you like it or not is another matter entirely, but they ARE replacing it with something.

You're all pretending
Bozja is the sequel to Eureka, not Heaven on high
Heaven on high (in terms of development is not being followed by anything in Shadowbringers)

[Enla]

You're all pretending
Bozja is the sequel to Eureka, not Heaven on high
Heaven on high (in terms of development is not being followed by anything in Shadowbringers)

We're not getting something with that type of content loop, but the 'hey this is how you can level your alt classes' loop is absolutely being iterated upon. It's okay if you aren't happy that we aren't getting another Deep Dungeon, but the function it fulfills in the game isn't going away. It's just being assigned to another type of grindable content. Your mileage just may vary as to whether or not this is a good or comparable change.

[Amnmaat]

We're not getting something with that type of content loop, but the 'hey this is how you can level your alt classes' loop is absolutely being iterated upon. It's okay if you aren't happy that we aren't getting another Deep Dungeon, but the function it fulfills in the game isn't going away. It's just being assigned to another type of grindable content. Your mileage just may vary as to whether or not this is a good or comparable change.

The root of the topic is where development resources and time is being allocated to, not whether I can level jobs like in deep dungeon in the new Bozja. I know that already, it's not a revelation.
If you actually followed the discussion you'd understand what we were talking about. The "cost/time" they used for Eureka last time around is being used for Bozja this time around, the same can't be said about Heaven on high, that development cost and time has not be "replaced" with anything.

[TheMightyMollusk]

So if I go out to Quarrymill and try to enter the Palace of the Dead, it won't be there? And Heaven-on-High is gone too? And the upcoming Bozjan Front is canned before it started?