Predictions for OC/FT Live Letter

[CidHeiral]

Normal mode should be standard… hard modes should be extras for those that want and/or enjoy the challenge of it. But I think a lot of people of both the dev and player side have lost sight of the fact that this is a Final Fantasy game, first and foremost, and the expectation of being part of that series is that the story and storytelling takes priority. Would you expect to go through MSQ without the normal versions of the trials? How is this any different?

I agree that there should have been a Normal/Savage split which I've said before. My previous post was addressing the "SE hates casuals everything is for raiders" narrative which is clearly absurd when you look at the breadth of content as a whole. It wasn't a proclamation of why not having a normal mode is great.

That also does not change the message here though. Yoshi-P can't say that he does not have enough people to work on the game when parts of CS3 were being pulled of to develop the Tactics Remaster, and what ever other project they have going on.

Unless one of us gets hired at SE it's all speculation. I would be very surprised if the Tactics remaster was significantly impacting FFXIV.

So why is it now ok for a normal version to not be there and that we should understand that when even the producer said that is not a good enough explanation?

Understanding why something is the case and agreeing with it are two different things.

[Daralii]

Unless one of us gets hired at SE it's all speculation. I would be very surprised if the Tactics remaster was significantly impacting FFXIV.

Yoshida was publicly begging for applicants during ShB, and XIV has slowed to a crawl while they're working on the Tactics remake and unnamed Sakaguchi title. The main "cost" he mentioned being manpower seems like a completely logical assumption.