Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
Manpower yes, because they refuse to assign more developers. Budget, I don't think is the issue, but rather the actual assignment of manpower, because you can see how certain teams never grow in the credits.

Tech debt I don't think is particularly the issue either, because that can be fixed, there is just a lack of ability or a lack of task assignment to actually improve it. They've had 12 years to fix various "tech debt" after all.
The manpower is an issue because they refuse to hire anyone outside of Japan and potential employees are short because of this. The budget is an issue because square takes the game's profits and doesn't put it back into the game, not because the game doesn't make money (it does). The deadlines they have to meet are super strict, they have to put out x amount of content so they can't just divert their coders to dig through old systems and remake them, that's why you keep seeing them make questionable decisions when it comes to glamour and other things that seem like a bandaid solutions that are just slapped ontop of current systems (the outfit system in the glam chest for example) instead of just remaking the systems in a smarter way.