FF16 stealing dev time from FF14

[Amnmaat]

Unlike those other projects though, FFXVI is litterally the same dev team as FFXIV. Creative business unit 3.

This is definitely something interviewers should ask Square enix, specifically Yoship. Because if we're getting less hair styles, dungeons, no hats/helmets for Viera/hrothgar because they're working on FFXVI that's eventually going to get exposed. They might as well come out and say it now rather than later when all that information will be in the XVI game credits and other sources.

[DPZ2]

Unlike those other projects though, FFXVI is litterally the same dev team as FFXIV. Creative business unit 3.

Same business unit. Different teams.

From Wikipedia entry for Square Enix.

Creative Business Unit III is led by Naoki Yoshida who was the head of Business Division 5 and focused primarily on MMORPGs, transitioning in 2020 to the single player Final Fantasy XVI. It mainly comprises the former Business Division 5 (Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy XIV, Dragon Quest Builders series).

[worldofneil]

Unlike those other projects though, FFXVI is litterally the same dev team as FFXIV. Creative business unit 3.

By far biggest dev team in that unit is the FFXIV dev team, you think they hired a whole new dev team for FFXVI? Doesn't seem plausible at all.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Yoshida always saying about how they're understaffed, but they can't find sufficient developers who meet their needs?

If they can't find more people to work on XIV then getting an entire new team for XVI does seem unlikely. Logically it would make sense that they'd be using people they already have (although admittedly that doesn't mean they'd necessarily all come from the XIV team)

[Kiurai]

It's a business division with multiple dev teams within each does division 1 work on KH and 7R?

[SamRF]

It's a business division with multiple dev teams within each does division 1 work on KH and 7R?

By far biggest dev team in that unit is the FFXIV dev team, you think they hired a whole new dev team for FFXVI? Doesn't seem plausible at all.

Again, just look at the trailer. It has FFXIV all over it (and that's fine imo).

[linayar]

you think they hired a whole new dev team for FFXVI? Doesn't seem plausible at all.

Probably not a whole new dev team, but there would be dedicated dev teams for each game after some new hires and some reshuffling if they want to keep up the pace of FFXIV's development. It's one thing if Shadowbringers (and Stormblood before it) didn't get anything new and only "lost content," but that's not the case and they're still keeping up with 3-4 months of patch cycle (unexpected quarantine aside).

Either way, it can be seen one way or the other once people have the credits for 16 and can compare them to the credits for SB and ShB.

[Hycinthus]

Do you think 6.0 is coming out next year or the year XVI is coming out?

I think 6.0 and XVI will not be coming out at the same year or within 1 year of each other.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Do you think 6.0 is coming out next year or the year XVI is coming out?

I think 6.0 and XVI will not be coming out at the same year or within 1 year of each other.

Uh...
With a 2 year expansion cycle...

It's impossible to release them more than a year between one expansion and the next.

[Kiurai]

We were supposed to already get the expac announcement about now we may see it in late Dec./early Jan. Imo

[Amnmaat]

We were supposed to already get the expac announcement about now we may see it in late Dec./early Jan. Imo

That's actually rather optimistic, we're getting the next expac announcement closer to February or March.