Finally Understanding SE's Decision Making (And Why It Won't Change)

[HunkyMarauder]

The issue is that they think things are "too hard" or "a lot of work", including many things that any programmer, with any codebase, could achieve in a short period of time. There are so many ways to think outside the box if there are infrastructure issues. It comes down to either that their team is too divided up so one person can't just implement a feature on their own causing it not to be implemented at all, or that some of them don't believe they can do things that they, in fact, can.

aka incompetence

[Jeeqbit]

aka incompetence

Basically that. It would help if they just proactively went and tried to hire all the modders and tool developers. Because they have had these problems for 12 years now:

• Armoire issues.
• Glamour Dresser issues.
• A housing crisis.
• Problematic buff and debuff limits that break rotations.
• Slow packet and battle processing code that 2013 multi-threaded hardware probably shouldn't struggle with, nevermind 2025 hardware.
• "Difficulty carrying things with the player" across physical servers.
• Inability to revisit linkshells, such that they created an entirely different version of them called CWLS.
• Daily DDoS of their NA servers that, while I admit are difficult to prevent, there are ways to think outside the box like creating multiple routes to the server and proactively diverting player clients to a different route when attacks are happening.

In addition, the struggle with viera and hrothgar hats for half of the game's existence now.

[HunkyMarauder]

Basically that. It would help if they just proactively went and tried to hire all the modders and tool developers. Because they have had these problems for 12 years now:

• Armoire issues.
• Glamour Dresser issues.
• A housing crisis.
• Problematic buff and debuff limits that break rotations.
• Slow packet and battle processing code that 2013 multi-threaded hardware probably shouldn't struggle with, nevermind 2025 hardware.
• "Difficulty carrying things with the player" across physical servers.
• Inability to revisit linkshells, such that they created an entirely different version of them called CWLS.
• Daily DDoS of their NA servers that, while I admit are difficult to prevent, there are ways to think outside the box like creating multiple routes to the server and proactively diverting player clients to a different route when attacks are happening.

In addition, the struggle with viera and hrothgar hats for half of the game's existence now.

Yeah but they are completely incapable of hiring anyone who isn't Japanese because apparently the language barrier is too strong lmao

One wonders how studios like CD Projekt Red manages to communicate internally with people from all over Europe.

Yet another self-own by the Japanese resistance to globalization.

[Arrius]

Yeah but they are completely incapable of hiring anyone who isn't Japanese because apparently the language barrier is too strong lmao

One wonders how studios like CD Projekt Red manages to communicate internally with people from all over Europe.

Yet another self-own by the Japanese resistance to globalization.

They really still don't like hiring outside sources, and the outside sources don't like the harsh limitations Japan imposes upon them.
Overwork culture, global lower-than-average salary, affordable for very low living standards of housing, and the language problems being one of the biggest reasons.

[HunkyMarauder]

They really still don't like hiring outside sources, and the outside sources don't like the harsh limitations Japan imposes upon them.
Overwork culture, global lower-than-average salary, affordable for very low living standards of housing, and the language problems being one of the biggest reasons.

Japan has a serious brain drain problem for a while now. Even the gaming industry has a technical brain drain. Like why work for a game studio when you can work as a SWE at Google for 200k if you're someone with 15 years of experience.

There's a reason there's been barely innovation in gameplay (outside of the indie scene) since game studios find it far easier to find artists and writers than people with technical competency lol

[Valence]

Yeah but they are completely incapable of hiring anyone who isn't Japanese because apparently the language barrier is too strong lmao

One wonders how studios like CD Projekt Red manages to communicate internally with people from all over Europe.

Yet another self-own by the Japanese resistance to globalization.

They won't make me believe it's hard to find japanese talents in a country over a hundred million souls.

Japan has a serious brain drain problem for a while now. Even the gaming industry has a technical brain drain. Like why work for a game studio when you can work as a SWE at Google for 200k if you're someone with 15 years of experience.

There's a reason there's been barely innovation in gameplay (outside of the indie scene) since game studios find it far easier to find artists and writers than people with technical competency lol

This isn't a problem inherent to Japan, but to the whole video game industry. There is a reason average ages in most studios don't go over 30, that people have garbage wages and are paid "in passion", don't count their hours because they don't have families to feed, are fresh and naive out of uni and are doing their dream job of development. The only people that oversaturate the market are found in creative jobs because they don't have much choices outside of games (especially game designers and testers). Programmers and engineers tend to get out once they start having families of their own and need actual money and stable careers to back it up which they can find in most firms that aren't about video gaming.

[Jeeqbit]

They won't make me believe it's hard to find japanese talents in a country over a hundred million souls.

It's an ageing population. So an issue is many of the people they will employ will have a more old fashioned mindset and that is a common problem in society. Often a younger person will shock you with what they can come up with.

There is a reason average ages in most studios don't go over 30, that people have garbage wages and are paid "in passion", don't count their hours because they don't have families to feed

The sad thing is a lot of us would do it for free, considering that's literally what modders and tool developers are doing. They just need to ask for the help. It's that simple.

[DPZ2]

Yeah but they are completely incapable of hiring anyone who isn't Japanese because apparently the language barrier is too strong lmao

It takes about 1100 hours to become fluent in Polish. On average, it takes at least twice that long to learn Japanese or Chinese. Alphabets are a primary problem. Go figure.

So, who would you be more willing to hire, an English-only speaker with no idea what このガイドの目的は、プログラマーにコードを書くための要件を知らせることです。 (not especially functional Japanese, mind you) means outside of Google Translate, or someone who can actually read coding specifications in Japanese?

More importantly, why should a decidedly Japanese company tailor their most important private intellectual property to an English-only programmer just because ... globalization?

[sindriiisgaming]

Basically that. It would help if they just proactively went and tried to hire all the modders and tool developers. Because they have had these problems for 12 years now:

• Armoire issues.
• Glamour Dresser issues.
• A housing crisis.
• Problematic buff and debuff limits that break rotations.
• Slow packet and battle processing code that 2013 multi-threaded hardware probably shouldn't struggle with, nevermind 2025 hardware.
• "Difficulty carrying things with the player" across physical servers.
• Inability to revisit linkshells, such that they created an entirely different version of them called CWLS.
• Daily DDoS of their NA servers that, while I admit are difficult to prevent, there are ways to think outside the box like creating multiple routes to the server and proactively diverting player clients to a different route when attacks are happening.

In addition, the struggle with viera and hrothgar hats for half of the game's existence now.

I've also been angry that they don't hire them or even just freelance them... they're extremely talented and dedicated people with real genuine passion for making xiv better. Yet blaming the language barrier time and time again.. when they have TWO translators. As for redemption. No. These devs will kill their own game like everything else se kills.

When ffxiv is a husk of itself se might legit go bankrupt. Because let's be real the already played the ff7 card and it's not popular. They can't just keep playing it forever

[Ath192]

Basically that. It would help if they just proactively went and tried to hire all the modders and tool developers. Because they have had these problems for 12 years now:

• Armoire issues.
• Glamour Dresser issues.
• A housing crisis.
• Problematic buff and debuff limits that break rotations.
• Slow packet and battle processing code that 2013 multi-threaded hardware probably shouldn't struggle with, nevermind 2025 hardware.
• "Difficulty carrying things with the player" across physical servers.
• Inability to revisit linkshells, such that they created an entirely different version of them called CWLS.
• Daily DDoS of their NA servers that, while I admit are difficult to prevent, there are ways to think outside the box like creating multiple routes to the server and proactively diverting player clients to a different route when attacks are happening.

In addition, the struggle with viera and hrothgar hats for half of the game's existence now.

I really wished they hired English game designers. And not the care bear type. The game of thrones type.

The kind of people that are capable of killing off Wuk Lamat for being too naive, revert Koana into someone who doesn't throw their lives away for a dumb Bison, and as result of mamool ja not winning the throne throwing all of Tuliyollal into a civil war that sets the stage for Mamool Ja leading Besieged attacks against the capital city. Turning the entire world map of Yok Tural into a conquest type scenario where players need to get signet and keep control of the world map for additional benefits. adding needed gameplay to the overworld. It only makes sense as some of the contestants, namely Koana and Wuk brought foreigners to attempt to interfere in the very internal election process and it is a form a cheating because they were too weak to seize the throne by themselves and it was meant to result in chaos.

Furthermore, The warrior of light, instead of being a hypocrite and pretending what they are doing is right or necessary admit they have to go into solution 9 and kill their leadership and shut down all their systems because they are planning on using our souls for their own convenience and it's a them or us scenario. No more apologies, or pretending they weren't people. It was outright murder but it had to be done to save our world.

We need people with actual conviction and capable of making hard choices in this game. Everybody finds a compromise and lives somewhat happily ever after is not satisfying to anyone, it doesn't make a good story, and it definitely doesn't make for a good game.