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Time to blog in between horrific fail groups. I'm learning that not everyone in the guild is worth grouping with for heroics. I stopped exp on a character to go chain-wipe to a boss three times in ten minutes and then have the fail healer log out on us.

There was a post on the official XI forums from Camate, who's kind of known as the go-to mod/rep/whatever there for being the good cop and all that jazz. He posted, well, this.

Howdy! I’d like to clarify a couple things as there seem to be a lot of questions and lack of clarity in regards to FFXI development.

First off, FFXI and FFXIV are being developed completely separate, so when it comes to future development of FFXI, FFXIV is of no concern whatsoever. For certain requests, it’s not as simple as just increasing the number of personnel. Even if we were to add more people, there is a still a limit on human resources, so when we receive a lot of requests and what not, priority lists are generated and it’s possible that implementation will get pushed back.

When we respond saying that certain requests or ideas are difficult to accomplish, unfortunately these cannot be solved just by tossing more people at it. The main reason is that the current FFXI system was not designed for certain things and because of this it is difficult to address them. So, it’s not just a problem of low personnel. However, regardless of how long it takes, we will always be looking into beneficial ideas proactively, so we would appreciate your continued feedback on all things moving forward.

So allegedly XIV isn't being funded whatsoever by XI. This would be nice and relieving if it wasn't for the fact that they're, you know, created by the same company. I kind of refuse to believe that XI's income since Abyssea came out has been turned around and pumped into all of the new XI stuff coming out.

Oh wait.

We're getting (known, anyway) more tiers of a shitty NM system, five levels which we'll burn in a level ninety zone, and a handful of job abilities and spells. There was no Vanafest this year or anything. XI has roughly 500k subs active, I think I remember hearing it dipped as low as 300k? Regardless, it has to be making a mint.

Comparatively, XIV is making zero (0) dollars. It has zero (0) funding subs. It has zero (0) extra services, it has zero (0) ways of making money.

XIV recently got videos showing off the new combat system, the new raids, the new group content, the new everything.

XI has a small update that took longer to hotfix than it did to apply and no known expansions of any variety in the future, outside of (whoopity doo) Fields of Valor and the new NM Voidwalkers.

Yeah, keep telling us that XIV's development isn't helped by XI at all. I'm sure that all of the money XI brings in to SE's coffers isn't at all being sent somewhere else.