Quote Originally Posted by Bibine_Bine View Post
This is being developed by a third party. Square Enix is simply licensing out their IP and sharing game assets to another developer. No money or dev time is being taken from SE. In fact, this is just making them money.




Abysmally dumb take. That's literally not how any of this works.
Are you trying to say that this Chinese company will develop the game for SE for free? I would laugh if this whole situation wasn’t so depressing. Like I’m still having fun and I love the game and this expansion, but looking at the direction they’re taking, by the next expansion I’m not sure I will. We are getting more rewards now, more things to grind, that’s amazing! But we also need the type of content that makes you interact with other players, the content that is actually hard and threatening, not just scripted fights with an instant wipe mechanics, a better levelling experience, a better and more meaningful gearing system.

I’ll try to be patient since Yoshi-P promised us a refined multiplayer gameplay and a more fulfilling gameplay experience, whatever that means, but yeah not the news I wanted to wake up to. I wish more effort was put into main game. Some people says it’s not that SE won’t give money to ffxiv, but that it’s hard to find a good employee. But they’re not even hiring anymore! Iirc the last time we got a hiring panel during LL, they were hiring a person to do the marketing…