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

[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

[NaoSen]

This doesn't make sense. The mobile version has a "design doc" compiled across ten years worth of evolution and feedback. The PC version which is its point of reference had no idea what it needed to look like ten years from its original (difficult) development, so obviously could not plan for it. It's totally unreasonable to put their differences down to the attitude of the devs.

Quality of life is possible to add, and some systems should have been outright overhauled by now. Be it as small as a shorter loot time out (3 minutes on mobile vs 5 on pc) or a roll on all button, better friends' system (Two-way among other things) and glamour system being larger changes but still doable, better map, even treasure map location finding is done nicer on mobile,
I mean a lot of modders have had stuff for years that improve Quality of Life, so definitely no excuse for the game not to have it.

Two way friends list ? Got to play on mobile to get that.

[Clockworks]

You compare it to Warframe like Warframe is better but what you may not know is that their "expansion" equivalent is basically a 2-3 hour story mission released once every few years. And then there's a new game mode or two once a year to grind for hours doing the same stuff on repeat. Don't act like FF14 is somehow committing a cardinal sin by either not being able to or choosing not to produce as much content as people are demanding. Running an MMO is extremely demanding, coding is a nightmare even without a deadline and include a high quality standard and online components as well as having to put all that through several profit driven executives, you'll understand why 9/10 MMOs end up failing within 10 years.

I don't understand why some people can't accept this. It's one thing having 5-10 years to produce a high budget, massive open world game for a huge audience, but FFXIV gets 2 years tops to actually work on an expansion and that is while producing endgame content for the previous one, and they still manage to make the new expansion big enough to be its own game. That in itself is a miracle and we should be grateful that we get a playable expansion or patch at all (looking at you WoW), but some people have cultivated this discourse that FF14 is somehow a terrible game because the developers either cannot or choose not to produce content that they can spend all hours of the day on and not feel disappointed once. It's a video game! If you aren't happy just play something else instead of ranting and casting judgement on something you know nothing about.

This is some good stuff, I'm honestly jealous, I have no idea how you wrote that with a straight face

[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.

[Striker44]

This is some good stuff, I'm honestly jealous, I have no idea how you wrote that with a straight face

When you attack the person while not actually addressing any of the points they actually made, it ends up just being tacit admittance that you can't refute what they're saying. In other words, you're admitting that you know they're right and don't like it.

[HunkyMarauder]

When you attack the person while not actually addressing any of the points they actually made, it ends up just being tacit admittance that you can't refute what they're saying. In other words, you're admitting that you know they're right and don't like it.

You're one to talk

Actually, honest, intelligent people do take him seriously. It's quite telling (and a bit amusing) to watch how even short, simple posts by him are magically "ignored" by certain bitter malcontents around here who know they have no actual response to the points he makes. Stand up to a bully and watch how they suddenly clam up and refuse to engage.

Narrator's voice: The couple dozen or so bitter residents are meaningless compared to the hundreds of thousands of players enjoying the game.

Thankfully, the silent majority of players are having a blast playing the game, having fun, and may not even know these other things exist, let alone find anything meaningful in them. Pray, disregard the bad-faith forum posters who are addicted to the game but so pathetically bitter they can't stand the thought of other people enjoying something.

I truly feel sorry for you and how bitter a human being you are around here.

Happy Birthday, Yoshi-P, and thank you for helping create a fun game.

Note: They do check player feedback. They look at engagement metrics they have on their own end. What they don't necessarily bother with is a couple dozen bitter dregs perpetually negative about everything on the forum here.

This. The simple reality is that the Scions are hugely popular among the fanbase at large, minus the dozen or so utterly bitter, sad, negative dregs around here that hate everything about the game, anyway, and can't stand that other people enjoy it. Final Fantasy has never been Game of Thrones. People by and large play this game to relax, have fun, and enjoy a good story with characters they know and like without wondering who's going to be offed next. New adventures with old friends, mixed with introducing a few new characters (a la Zero) is the way I hope they go.

They don't. It's just the natural reaction from honest people who see Yoshi-P getting personally attacked and the game absolutely trashed by a select few malcontents who are so pathetically bitter they can't stand the thought of people enjoying the game.

Like, there's virtually nothing else in your post history.

[Moqi]

When you attack the person while not actually addressing any of the points they actually made, it ends up just being tacit admittance that you can't refute what they're saying. In other words, you're admitting that you know they're right and don't like it.

We are laughing and moving on. Feel free to believe whatever you need to (we'll keep laughing).

[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.

[ovIm]

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.

Since you are saying that: OP posted about Warframe. Warframe has a system in place called Tennogen, where fans and modders are allowed to create their own skins and share them with the Warframe developer. Good stuff then gets implemented in the game. Sure, that would require quite a bit of lawyer work to set such a system up without risk of legal liability, but it would not be impossible to allow fan contributions in their game (after a quality check, of course).