Current Problem Parallels

[KageTokage]

I can't help but wonder how many of the issues stem partly from executive meddling trying to make sure XIV gets as little funding as possible while still bringing in profits.

The dev team is on record as being woefully understaffed in multiple places, though they are also painfully out of touch in some regards like the whole healer debacle and the fact that the Eureka bots are making the content virtually unplayable on lower population DCs.

[Saraide]

I can't help but wonder how many of the issues stem partly from executive meddling trying to make sure XIV gets as little funding as possible while still bringing in profits.

The dev team is on record as being woefully understaffed in multiple places, though they are also painfully out of touch in some regards like the whole healer debacle and the fact that the Eureka bots are making the content virtually unplayable on lower population DCs.

Going for a just barely viable product is disappointingly common for big publishers. We dont need to look far for that either, babylon's fall is the best example.

[Amenara]

I can't help but wonder how many of the issues stem partly from executive meddling trying to make sure XIV gets as little funding as possible while still bringing in profits.

The dev team is on record as being woefully understaffed in multiple places, though they are also painfully out of touch in some regards like the whole healer debacle and the fact that the Eureka bots are making the content virtually unplayable on lower population DCs.

Corporate greed of SE is something that worries me about the future of FF14 as well. With the CEO's want to get into NFTs and the selling of some of their highest profile IPs for said NFTs I have a feeling that the profits from FF14 are being funneled into projects that are doomed to fail. Like Saraide said, Babylon's Fall is a great example of this greed.