What is going on with Square Enix and the 14 team?

[Midareyukki]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but unless they put the brakes on this attitude by 6.2, the truth is that they will just continue to decimate the game in the name of dividends. And since SE will never sell the rights to this franchise to ANYONE, EVER, the game will just get trashed when stockholders no longer like the returns.

Yes, it's a vicious circle and makes no sense, but investors want money asap, and continuously. Yes, this outlook actually cuts them out of money in the long run. But as an investor, they want what's hot now, and the second something cools off, the majority of them jump ship and take their investments with them, leaving the company or project in shambles with no revenue to fix anything.

The comparison is almost identical in all respects. And since even the majority of people that usually stroke Yoshi's ego (and other stuff) are remaining surprisingly silent, I dare say even THEY are sick of the BS at this point. Yes fanbois and girls, we noticed your silence. I'm no prophet, but I understand business, and what's going on here is an all too familiar story in this day and age. Welcome to the end.

...wait, they've been silent? Half the threads get flooded with people inhaling hopium and accusing others who say stuff like this to be high on doomium.

But when it comes to their attitude, I don't know. I'd like to think that, with the proper incentive and\or fan support, some of their attitudes toward certain topics may change. But as you said, money is the biggest motivating factor, and it's not like they'll be lacking by telling minority groups to F off or keep throwing stuff to lower people's standards. This game will still gross highly, this game will still be popular. And they know it.

Now, we like to think that they do listen to people. But as it stands, with how 6.1 has been dealt with and how its content, while great for the most part, has as many holes as swiss cheese...

Yeah, you are right. The housing team hasn't made anything not shit since its inception. With the benefit of hindsight, a 10 year track record of the housing team being incompetent kind of suggests that them fucking up ishgard housing was inevitable.

Hey that's not true... >w> they let us use glitches to float stuff without going nuts about it.