(12-04-2015, 05:39 PM)Melkire Wrote: Yyyyyeaaaaah, think they might've goofed with this announcement. Usually for issues of this magnitude, developers will just state, "We've identified the cause and we're working on a solution, please stay tuned" and leave it at that. Prevents malicious users from deliberately exploiting and/or impacting the game in a harmful fashion.
...good to know though, I suppose?
EDIT: That said, I don't see a conspiracy here to cull "massively multiplayer," just a genuine, honest-to-God issue with... dun dun dunnnn... their infrastructure.
FFXIV's dev teams strikes me as people who give far too much benefit of the doubt to their playerbase. Which is sad, because while I do like they believe that strongly in the community, some people will inevitably exploit it.Â
(12-04-2015, 09:25 PM)Ryanti Wrote:(12-04-2015, 08:35 PM)Teadrinker Wrote:(12-04-2015, 06:50 PM)Caspar Wrote: I just read from all this "squaresoft please give our team money so we can improve our server infrastructure and hire some more programmers." ;_;
From the small team they've got the amount of issues that DON'T make it live is pretty damn amazing.
These guys have to be working themselves to the bone.
They probably are. IIRC Yoshi had a little moment in one of the recent Live Letters in which he made a passive aggressive comment about being understaffed that caught a lot of people's attention. There's been a lot of rumor about that recently. I'm starting to believe a lot of XIV's revenue is not going back into XIV. I don't understand why Square isn't re-investing back into the game. XI wrapped up all new content, how about putting some of them on XIV's staff?
Square Enix nearly bankrupted themselves after 1.0's disastrous launch, coupled with spending obscene amounts on Tomb Raider and FFXIII. The former supposedly didn't make a profit, while the latter struggled to corner the estimated market. I suspect they are using FFXIV to funnel other projects to basically reinvigorate the company. FFXIV, unfortunately, has long been viewed as a hail mary attempt to salvage a sinking ship. The fact it practically saved SE makes me think their shareholders are writing it off with the mentality, "well, if you were successful with a shoestring budget. Why should we give you more money?" Â
Sincerely hope that isn't the case long term.
