FFXIV needs an update

[Catwho]

They’ve acknowledged one. ONE. Flaw that hinders them. The spaghetti code the game is built on from the initial rebuild of 1.x..

There is a second flaw they've acknowledged, and that's a lack of available experienced Japanese game programmers (or programmers that speak Japanese passably enough to be hired full time. Those guys are worth their weight in gold, and the only one I know of works for ICE at Naughty Dog - not the US agency, the graphics development division for Sony.) SE doesn't like to outsource because every time they try it, it blow up in their faces and they end up bringing it back in house half the time anyway.

Instead what they've had to do is hire people slowly for the XIV team and train them up, and it could be a full expansion cycle before their new people are experienced enough to strike out on their own projects. Brooks Law is alive and well in 2021: Hiring additional programming staff for an already late project will only serve to make the project even later.

[Fyrebrand]

belts have needed to go for a long while. They are the only piece of gear that has no glamour purpose, really don't add much stat wise, and have honestly done nothing but needlessly clog up loot tables since at least HW. I am pretty sure we can all easily recall those times where nothing but belts dropped in an instance. So them realizing if they do away with a useless gear slot they can then give us more inventory isn't a bad thing.

I agree 100%, but those are all reasons why they probably didn't need to exist for the past 11 years, not the reason they're getting removed in Endwalker.

SE doesn't like to outsource because every time they try it, it blow up in their faces and they end up bringing it back in house half the time anyway.

*cough* FFVII remake *cough*