Quote Originally Posted by kaynide View Post
and there's a good chance the code that needs editing to make Y work is Ark levels of borked.
I mean, ARK is a pretty high bar for borkedness levels.

This is, after all, a game where frequently no one on the modding Discord -- including the actual dev team, who hang out there -- can figure out why something has gone wrong, to the point that it's tradition to just eventually give up and respond with the emoji of the ARK icon, because "Sometimes ARK gonna ARK."

It is a game with a (thankfully exceedingly rare) bug that can potentially corrupt your character when traveling between ARK servers; when no one -- not the devs, not the modders -- could figure it out, even after a long time trying to track it down, they basically just wrote it into the lore that "sometimes the teleporter kills you permanently; no one knows why" and called it a day.

As I said, I do love that game... but I feel like even FFXIV's harshest critics would have to admit that ARK's a level of borked that FFXIV could probably not reach even if they consciously tried.

(I strongly suspect the reason we're getting ARK II is that the Studio Wildcard folks have probably been praying for an excuse to set the existing codebase on fire, salt the ashes, and walk away to start clean.)