Square Enix, it's time to come clean about your plans for the future

[KizuyaKatogami]

I mean they are still hiring for the mmo development team in UI, game designer and monster design they are always hiring it’s just they have a weird boner for quality standards rather then training people less qualified



Well the team split after heavensward but it went into full production around stormblood finishing so post stormblood onwards would of been impacted which it wasn’t and Covid would of impacted stuff it affected everything so I think it isn’t copium to say Covid was the main reason for the shadowbringers issue.

Post stormblood was already almost finished by the time vase sb is out. That’s how they do things which Yoshi P has stated they work on the new expansion in advance. As for Shadowbringers i literally just gave you multiple evidence that content was already missing before Covid was even a thing…

[Nebelheim]

If they are working in something else, they will tell it when they are ready to it. Also, working on FFXVI and FFXIV at the same time while still maintain FFXI is already a lot of work.

They hardly even maintain ff11 its considered the stepchild to its younger brother ff14 and not even getting updates going further except occasional server maintenance which is covered by ff14s server engineers. There not putting in massive work to maintain ff11 its going to be on life support from now until there contract ends in 10 years for the maintenance for ff11 new server hardware.

[Atelier-Bagur]

They hardly even maintain ff11 its considered the stepchild to its younger brother ff14 and not even getting updates going further except occasional server maintenance which is covered by ff14s server engineers.

Also vastly different teams between FFXI and FFXIV so I don't understand why people act as if one team is single-handedly doing everything.

Another also, it's extremely sad and funny how some people are acting as if FFXIV is just done or under maintenance when the latest expansion has been announced and we have news for 6.5, with Yoshida already having ideas for more expansions down the road.

Do people just enjoy being dramatic here?

[raelgun]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_Patrol

https://www.mmorpg.com/news/square-e...les-2000128641

The game is no longer growing and more then likely we will see a shrink or just less going forward.

We won't see another end Walker busy release unless blizz messes up but they are doing very well with dragon flight

[Nebelheim]

Also vastly different teams between FFXI and FFXIV so I don't understand why people act as if one team is single-handedly doing everything.

Another also, it's extremely sad and funny how some people are acting as if FFXIV is just done or under maintenance when the latest expansion has been announced and we have news for 6.5, with Yoshida already having ideas for more expansions down the road.

Do people just enjoy being dramatic here?

Im pointing out that ff14 is the companies main priority now and the ff11 dev team is going onto other projects so how am i being dramatic about it. Your the one that goes into threads and come off as combative. I wasnt being dramatic when pointing out that ff14 is the main priority and money maker now and telling someone that ff11 isnt getting massive resources put into it anymore. In no way was i being doom and gloom or a troll or whatever else.

[Stormpeaks]

Also vastly different teams between FFXI and FFXIV so I don't understand why people act as if one team is single-handedly doing everything.

Another also, it's extremely sad and funny how some people are acting as if FFXIV is just done or under maintenance when the latest expansion has been announced and we have news for 6.5, with Yoshida already having ideas for more expansions down the road.

Do people just enjoy being dramatic here?

There's people being "doom and gloom" then there's people like you who believe literally everything they are told from a company, then there's a middle ground.

[Nebelheim]

There's people being "doom and gloom" then there's people like you who believe literally everything they are told, then there's a middle ground.

They seem to think I'm some massive ff11 fanboy who hates ff14. It's like it's hard for them to believe people can enjoy more then one game or when they bring up another game for ff14 to look at for features to bring to this game suddenly there like "your nothing but doom and gloom and a troll". Especially when people bring up qol or other features that would be good additions to ff14.

[Post]

I feel like FFXIV has a lot of good stuff in it and about it, just that the central game of battle, dungeons and bosses that I originally joined to play hasn't received the same attention as many social aspects I couldn't care less about.

It'd be one thing if the battle content were in a good way, but or doesn't feel like it to me. The most objective way I can relate this information is to just point at all of the various aspects of battle design that players simply don't have control over or encounter anymore. Folks will debate if that's a good or bad thing, but as someone that mostly does the battle stuff and not much else, variety within the system is king.

Like, just comparing PvE to PvP, it feels really fresh to change jobs in PvP and learn the ins and outs, but in PvE I can play one tank and know them all, one healer and know them all, most of the DPS are now more rigidly tied to the 2 min meta, and bosses all have to introduce every attack individually (sometimes even multiple times) before even conceiving of combining or throwing a curveball.

If the encounters and jobs were as deliberately as varied to actually play as they have been in the past, I probably wouldn't be here complaining, but it seems like everything's done in the name of balance and not fun. And balance for what, gear that's replaced in two patches? It's not worth it, because the gear doesn't matter in the end. It's the encounters and jobs that persist.

[Avoidy]

can you imagine if the first dev post in nearly a decade were here, in this thread, with them telling us on the english forums that the game was basically in maintenance-lite mode while they develop ff17?
lol
lmao
I mean don't get me wrong I'd love transparency too, but you and I both know we're more likely to glean it from a badly translated Japanese interview or something instead. They don't talk about shit here.

[DPZ2]

The same will happen to 14. The only question is when. I think this ten-year period is going to be used for CBU3 to make FF17 using funds from FF14...

Congratulations!

You've just discovered the deep dark secret of gaming companies that, well, want to remain gaming companies over the long haul. "Reinvest funds from earlier games towards new games". It's amazing how companies do that, isn't it?