Comments from the Devs

[Reapz]

You guys chill out. Tomorrow we will all rage and speculate. Possibly just rage.

Looks like rage

Edit: Looks like I spoke to soon, Grand Companies page been updated. We have SOMETHING!

[Lordender]

lol I don't even know what to think of grand companies tbh.

They have been hyping the shit out of it so it better be worthwhile. I could really careless about the company content right now because I'm way more interested about the revamping than content.

[m4th_]

(you can have this)

* Screenshots depict content under development.

[Groovebox]

Looks like rage

Edit: Looks like I spoke to soon, Grand Companies page been updated. We have SOMETHING!

Worthless. I guess I was expecting a bit more than some lore and muddy screenshots.

[Spira]

You talk like XI is a main / substantial source of their revenues. XI is a tiny fraction of what the company makes and had no bearing on the development costs of XIV

XI isn't the main source but its definitely substantial. Its kinda hard to tell now since in their most recent annual reports they stopped reporting online games separately from the rest, but SE's net income isn't very high. Operating income from the online department can easily capture 25% of the NI figure, and is probably the department that requires the least amount of money to maintain.

In other words, for all the big bucks SE makes from flagship games, most of it is lost to development costs and failed IPs. XI may be a drop in the glass, but it is also significant enough to turn their statements from profit to loss. Right now they're obviously in the red because of what XIV isn't providing them in income... And this makes a huge different because there are investors involved. This in turn affects whatever else the company might try to put out

[Reapz]

Worthless. I guess I was expecting a bit more than some lore and muddy screenshots.

Yeh not exactly the battle system details or letter from the producer we are all waiting for but better than silence I guess :/

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

Wow... and only one 'newspaper' article to read on the lodestone? Geez they must be under the gun pretty bad.

[Corrderio]

Would be nice to get some concrete info on how companies work. All it sounds like to me is XIV's version of Campaign.

[Lordender]

Lol companies are going to be fail I think, with all the hype its getting it won't live up to expectations. Has SE ever lived up to expectations? I can't remember the last time they did after hyping something up.

Nobody really cares about the lore in this game(yet) People want to see posts about the failures being fixed. I think this info was weaksauce, Campaign type event is the LAST thing this game needs right now especially with the amount of problems on their plate.

[Lhyet]

Sounds pretty good to me. Isn't this the content that everyone's been complaining about the game lacking?
Yes it sounds like campaign, but it also sounds like a campaign with some pretty decent rewards.

It may well be a terrible thing that's added, but considering that one of the main things that people think the game is lacking is content, how about we don't whine about news of upcoming content before we know anything else about it.
No, it's not the battle related information, but we've still got the rest of the week to get that.

[Corrderio]

Content is nice but what people are wanting to hear are the major overhauls that Yoshida has been talking about since January.

Lack of content is one of the problems no doubt, but the biggest one is the core of the game itself is nothing more than a lump of sh*t.

[Kurokikaze]

Judging from the screenshots I think Companies is going to be Dungeon related... Theres also Chigoes and Puks in the pictures <---- disappoint.

[Lhyet]

I understand that and completely agree, but we're still expecting that information later this week so I don't see the issue.
This is quite possibly part of the higher level content they said would come with the battle changes, so hearing a bit of news about it is surely a good thing, no?

[Dein]

I'm not really expecting them to add new enemies (though I'm sure there are plenty of unused mobs in the dats) with the dungeons outside of maybe the lvl 50 dungeon(s). My main concern is whether or not these dungeons will offer rewards and gear for players at a decent rate that's actually good compared to other gear in the usual level range for players running the dungeon. Hopefully dungeon quests come alongside this update as well.

[Lhyet]

They did mention that class specific gear would be coming soon, so with any luck some of it will trickle in with the Companies content.

[Kensaki]

All this wait and we get blurred small grey pictures of a mun-tuy cellar like dungeon with puks and chigoes and no concrete info at all. SE is falling flat on their faces again.

[Kurokikaze]

They did mention that class specific gear would be coming soon, so with any luck some of it will trickle in with the Companies content.

Class specific gear was going to be more for the Jobs I thought. Judging from the drawings that Yoshi-P showed a few letters ago.

But yea, I'll be really disappointed if they don't add new mob types to these dungeons. More so if the bosses are just things we've seen already. I'm not saying give us KB but theres tons of creatures they haven't used in the FF franchise.

[Draylo]

Can someone post the new info?

[Aratharn]

Judging from the screenshots I think Companies is going to be Dungeon related... Theres also Chigoes and Puks in the pictures <---- disappoint.

That better be the rank 30 dungeon.

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

No reason to complain about upcoming content. This game needs it. Sucks we didn't get a battle update but like Yoshida said waaaaaaaaay back he has multiple teams working on different things. This 'team' was tasked with creating some content and they did. Let's not knock it till we try it. The team tasked with redoing probably every formula in the game, an incredible task that would(and has) taken months, has yet to post any news. Let's give them to the end of the week before we line them up for the firing squad. There's a reason why the patch was pushed back till mid-june; they're under the gun and need more time to get it together. I'm not defending SE, their game blows which is why it's free. But let's cut the guys trying the fix the problem some slack until they actually get their first patch out. If it sucks then by all means let's tear them a new one.

This isn't to say that this 'update' on the companies wasn't beyond weaksauce. A small lodestone lore post? With one vauge 'newspaper' entry?