FF16 stealing dev time from FF14

[Floortank]

Then just call them BD5. Saying they're BD3 just causes confusion.

I agree it's confusing, but it's what happened.

I do call them Division 5 (in my last post about it on an earlier page of this thread) but it seems as if Division 5 was dissolved into 3 in the restructuring Square Enix underwent after posting a ton of losses in 2019.

[Kiurai]

They go by Creative Development Divisions now I think

[linayar]

I agree it's confusing, but it's what happened.

What do you mean? Are you saying BD3 moved to BD5 or are you confusing Business Division with Creative Business Unit?

According to my understanding of what Wikipedia is saying:

Yoshida's BD5 becomes CBU 3.
BD3 (KH) is in CBU 1 along with BD1 (main FF) and BD4 (spin off FF).

[MonsutaMan]

When I click a thread, I immediately go from the 1st, to the last page to see if it even has anything to do with the Op.

I was not disappointed.

[Anya_Synia]

I say good for Yoshi P, the new game is in safe hands. Some people seem to forget that Yoshi P is not machine, he is a person, noone wants to be restricted to just one project. Everyone strives to develop themselves and take on new challenges.

And actually Square Enix are a business they can do what they like with the money they earn from FFXIV, and not to mention the fact that there are separate dev teams.

[MistakeNot]

We now have evidence that FF16 is the reason why we have only one dungeon per patch, no new deep dungeon, a delayed exploratory zone (Bozja), less and less glamours, still no female Hrothgar or male Viera, no Hrothgar and Viera headgear...

It's because all the resources generated by hard working FF14 players are leeched off and used to make FF16. People guessed that it would be FF7 remake but they're actually wrong. It's FF16. A director cannot simultaneously work on two games and talent in FF14 should not be poached off to work on FF16. We paid for FF14 not for FF16.

Assuming you are indeed correct in your assertions that FF16 has been siphoning development resources from FF14 (something which is not a given), then what is your point? Do you want SE to stop development of FF16 or what?
Oh, and that the money players spend on FF14 goes towards the development of other games shouldn't be a surprise to anyone nor controversial. Game companies have to fund the development of new games somehow, and using the income from old games to fund the development of new games seem like an obvious way to do it.

[RTX3080]

Assuming you are indeed correct in your assertions that FF16 has been siphoning development resources from FF14 (something which is not a given), then what is your point? Do you want SE to stop development of FF16 or what?
Oh, and that the money players spend on FF14 goes towards the development of other games shouldn't be a surprise to anyone nor controversial. Game companies have to fund the development of new games somehow, and using the income from old games to fund the development of new games seem like an obvious way to do it.

It wasn't in the Terms of Service

[RTX3080]

It's most likely new hires or shuffled from Square enix's other departments, as opposed to XIV's core development team. Could they have borrowed some of the Senior staff for quality assurance? Definitely, it wouldn't really affect FFXIV too much. As senior staff's job is mostly the managing part where they supervise code quality, art quality, 3D art quality, and cross referencing; and procedures.

The real "blue collar workers," you know, the ones actually doing the 3D art and coding wouldn't all of a sudden have 2 jobs. The company would get sued or they'd have to pay them double the salary.
One positive from all of this is that if it's new hires they might be able to keep them after they finish FFXVI and bring them into FFXIV for added operations.

PS. Nice username, I'm gonna sell one of my livers for an RTX 3080 next year.

They won't being them back into ff14... They'll go make the next ff mmo

[AncientCrystal]

OP needs to shut up.

The series overall needed a new entry. XIV just does the same content over and over anyway.

Get the hell over it.

[SnowX]

Assuming you are indeed correct in your assertions that FF16 has been siphoning development resources from FF14 (something which is not a given), then what is your point? Do you want SE to stop development of FF16 or what?
Oh, and that the money players spend on FF14 goes towards the development of other games shouldn't be a surprise to anyone nor controversial. Game companies have to fund the development of new games somehow, and using the income from old games to fund the development of new games seem like an obvious way to do it.

He/She is a troll, that is his/her point