Why is Square Enix so lazy with making weapons lately?

[Rueby]

SE's leadership made the baffling decision of taking the CBUs that were profitable and having them shift their talent to managerial positions and other projects despite the MMOs and mobile games being responsible for something around 90% of their revenue last year, so FF14 gets the C team while the A team manages and the B team makes the unnamed new game.

Wait who's team C, A, B?
Also if the letters denote quality somehow then yeah I guess it's in line with what we got this expansion...I wouldn't be surprised honestly....

[Daralii]

Wait who's team C, A, B?
Also if the letters denote quality somehow then yeah I guess it's in line with what we got this expansion...I wouldn't be surprised honestly....

That's what I meant, yeah. Ishikawa, Koji, etc all got promoted so that they're overseeing everything CBU3/Creative Studio 3 does, and most of the talent they were cultivating are working on an unnamed game, so DT and on are largely being handled by people that were mostly assistants. I think Yoshida's said in interviews that he's barely involved at this point because he's busy with other work.

[Rueby]

That's what I meant, yeah. Ishikawa, Koji, etc all got promoted so that they're overseeing everything CBU3/Creative Studio 3 does, and most of the talent they were cultivating are working on an unnamed game, so DT and on are largely being handled by people that were mostly assistants. I think Yoshida's said in interviews that he's barely involved at this point because he's busy with other work.

I mean I'm sure they earned it but isn't it kinda risky to leave essentially your bread and butter to be experimented on? I'd rather them experiment on other games. They're really going to start burning goodwill if they keep taking Ls. I thought EW was a quality control nightmare but this graphical update is downright the worst thing that I never imagined would happen to this game. I feel like alot of the things look rather unsightly, it feels like no one bothered to walk into the game at all.

The metallic stuff are too HQ beside relatively low quality shit, shadows and edges flickering in the background, this god awful upscaling that gives me headache and I can't fully get rid of the blur that happens when I move even with FSR100 and FXAA... Even text flickers. I don't know...part of me hopes they get stung so they wake up.

But yeah...I've been considering my subscription, I thought the changes to our character were like the nail in the coffin but I never imagined how much worse everything is. I thought 'right the MSQ isn't for me, I still got gpose, housing, etc' the graphical update botched all that. I hate it, it feels like people who pushed it weren't communicating with one another. Alot of things feel eye-soreish now. Expressions look very uncanny too...How? How can you butcher something so bad....and why?

[Daralii]

I mean I'm sure they earned it but isn't it kinda risky to leave essentially your bread and butter to be experimented on? I'd rather them experiment on other games. They're really going to start burning goodwill if they keep taking Ls. I thought EW was a quality control nightmare but this graphical update is downright the worst thing that I never imagined would happen to this game. I feel like alot of the things look rather unsightly, it feels like no one bothered to walk into the game at all.

The metallic stuff are too HQ beside relatively low quality shit, shadows and edges flickering in the background, this god awful upscaling that gives me headache and I can't fully get rid of the blur that happens when I move even with FSR100 and FXAA... Even text flickers. I don't know...part of me hopes they get stung so they wake up.

But yeah...I've been considering my subscription, I thought the changes to our character were like the nail in the coffin but I never imagined how much worse everything is. I thought 'right the MSQ isn't for me, I still got gpose, housing, etc' the graphical update botched all that. I hate it, it feels like people who pushed it weren't communicating with one another. Alot of things feel eye-soreish now. Expressions look very uncanny too...How? How can you butcher something so bad....and why?

I think it's the current CEO that's directing this, but I don't know why he'd decide to mess with the business units that were succeeding or why the shareholders wouldn't push back immediately.

[Rueby]

I think it's the current CEO that's directing this, but I don't know why he'd decide to mess with the business units that were succeeding or why the shareholders wouldn't push back immediately.

Amazing. I honestly hope this bites him in the backside.