Quote Originally Posted by Antipika View Post
Lol you obviously know nothing about development, human resources and cost management. Apps dev could be done by employee working freelance, meaning that they get paid according to the time they work. You increase the workload? It costs you more money. It is also fairly possible that these apps development is fully outsourced (which is more and more common nowadays). Same in that case, the more work, the more it costs you.

And even if there are full time employee working on mobile apps, again, same. Either they have "free time" to dedicate to this (in that case it means that resources are poorly managed, since you shouldn't have employee paid sitting around doing nothing in your company). Either they are busy with other projects, you increase their workload, you have to pay them overtime...
Check out this current PERMANANT vacancy at SE Europe http://www.square-enix.com/eu/en/jobs/#SEE-GDS

It takes one dev to pull off another project to make an app, yes that takes longer but its all thats needed.

You obviously know nothing about development, software is always being developed, working on new projects debugging current software, take one dev off SE's free apps that they make no money from to make the authenticator and its win win.

SE has just announced lifetime discounts for us all they can afford one person to write an authenticator app, this discount costs them more than moving one or 2 devs to make an authenticator (doesn't even need to be involved with FFXIV, just work for SE)