Wait isn't 14 their online cash cow that is the reason they turn a profit?
I will never understand why management would take an online game that makes it's money from selling customisation and inject ideologies or start practices that piss off the majority.
If it were me, if I can't find a way to improve an income stream without risking it, I'd rather leave it and make a seperate contained project so I don't risk losing it all.
Think the major complaint is the previous writer for all the other expansions didn't write this so there's a huge tonal shift and there's some writers waifu being pushed hard
Ah so the lack of story consistency is the issue. That seems more a leftist issue as EVERY author needs to 'leave their mark' especially in franchises they didn't create.
It's made worse by waifu pushing as only the original authors can really get away with that, thinking of for example Anno and the Rebuild films with that character based off his wife.
It wasn't an impossible task, they just made the stupid mistake of going to South America in this expansion (and then later to North America for the technology part).
There's llamas and hot peppers and pyramids. That's it. There's no interesting story to tell - maybe there was, but if so it was lost to history when the empires fell. It's a boring continent, with shitty pan-flute music.
They have so much IP they could draw on for a new story, for instance going to Spira and fighting Sin or something like that.
Wait isn't 14 their online cash cow that is the reason they turn a profit?
I will never understand why management would take an online game that makes it's money from selling customisation and inject ideologies or start practices that piss off the majority.
If it were me, if I can't find a way to improve an income stream without risking it, I'd rather leave it and make a seperate contained project so I don't risk losing it all.
Think the major complaint is the previous writer for all the other expansions didn't write this so there's a huge tonal shift and there's some writers waifu being pushed hard
Ah so the lack of story consistency is the issue. That seems more a leftist issue as EVERY author needs to 'leave their mark' especially in franchises they didn't create.
It's made worse by waifu pushing as only the original authors can really get away with that, thinking of for example Anno and the Rebuild films with that character based off his wife.
Eh. The game finished it's story quite conclusively in the last expansion. They really just had an impossible task moving "forwards" from there.
It wasn't an impossible task, they just made the stupid mistake of going to South America in this expansion (and then later to North America for the technology part).
There's llamas and hot peppers and pyramids. That's it. There's no interesting story to tell - maybe there was, but if so it was lost to history when the empires fell. It's a boring continent, with shitty pan-flute music.
They have so much IP they could draw on for a new story, for instance going to Spira and fighting Sin or something like that.
Oh the tales I could tell about how mismanaged FFXI was...
Square has never been helmed by very intelligent people.
That reminds me of when Jews bought Disney and Disney bought Star Wars.