"SPARE NO EXPENSES"

[AkaeiNox]

No, knowing SE these days 500k went to XIV, maybe 1.5mil to XVI and the rest to "invest" in NFTs and crypto garbage.

I don't know why they decided to invest into NFTs instead of ML models like OpenAI and GPT-4.
Procedurally generated content would fix a lot of things here.

[Absimiliard]

It's fine. I'm sure the 200k they put into FFXIV since the end of Endwalker's first content tier was used in the most efficient way possible.

[MonteCristo]

We have, and the a big issue is that remains they still create content that forces max level players to go back to old zones or content whilst this system exists

This and tbh i get the new vs old but dont worry new players will be "old" soon enough with the way content is designed.

[hunkygladiator]

I don't know why they decided to invest into NFTs instead of ML models like OpenAI and GPT-4.
Procedurally generated content would fix a lot of things here.

Procedural generation for a video game would likely not be primarily ML-based in this decade. The tech isn't there.

Some parts may be ML-based using generative models like art assets, voice lines etc. But for the most part it would still be human work. For this decade we might mostly see more voiced dialogues. If FF14 survives to 2030 it might be a fully voiced MMO by then.

[Atelier-Bagur]

You and every schmuck in this godforsaken forum are so delusional into thinking more money equals good game.

No amount of cash will fix the issues FFXIV has. What the dev team is lacking is actual talent, not money.

[AkaeiNox]

Procedural generation for a video game would likely not be primarily ML-based in this decade. The tech isn't there..

Let me have some hope for 3D modelling. I want my Viera hats. :c

[Renalt]

As I'm getting similar questions so I shall re-post. FF17 is not a RPG game. Could attack with sword subjectively but not an action hitting game either. By incorporating with the concept of connection(NFT), it's totally brand new genre called NFT game(social crypto system).

https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/...74622711975936

Gil Toss should be the one and only attack.

[Shinkuno]

Some of that development time and money went into making this game single player, yet I don’t see anyone getting flak for that

The people that are tired of paying a subscription for a watered down single player game with a chatbox already left. The only people remaining are the people that happily pay monthly for a single player experience and delusional people like me that still believe the game will ever go back to being a multiplayer game *huffs copium*

[Derio]

Are you serious. We all know they spared no expense and development went into failures like Criterion dungeon rewards and island sanctuary.

[DiaDeem]

"Something something metaverse something nft something ohcrap the market's collapsing"

Give it another six months.. a year tops. They'll stop wasting money on that garbage once they realize (as everyone else but them has) that there's only like 3 people still buying NFTs and that nobody else cares. Ubisoft's Quartz are dead, Meta is pivoting away from Web3, Instagram is terminating their NFT support, Disney and MS closed their metaverse divisions. It's just sad that money's being wasted right now on it, but egh...