Development Team Size

[Airget]

I"m just gonna put this here for fun just cause I saw it on the XIV manifesto of changes and such. So apparently they have over 250 working on the game and if you look at everything noted it shows. It really does make me wonder how much the XI team has working for them. Based on content release and mainly focusing on balancing the game I would imagine the numbers are low, but how low exactly. A part of me wants to say 50, though that may be generous. It just makes you think, if XI had 250 working on it like XIV we'd prolly have all the continents released by now. Though I guess on the plus they are going to start charging them in novemeber/december so they won't really be bleeding as much money as they were before.

On a slight edit, the other reason why I"m posting this is because it's just disheartening while XIV gets this extravagant and quite beautiful looking adjustment over the next few months all we know about XI is they are still doing the pumpkin contest. .. . Hurray? It be nice if perhaps we could get some news to blow us out of the water and revitalize the game.

[Atomic_Skull]

I"m just gonna put this here for fun just cause I saw it on the XIV manifesto of changes and such. So apparently they have over 250 working on the game and if you look at everything noted it shows. It really does make me wonder how much the XI team has working for them. Based on content release and mainly focusing on balancing the game I would imagine the numbers are low, but how low exactly. A part of me wants to say 50, though that may be generous. It just makes you think, if XI had 250 working on it like XIV we'd prolly have all the continents released by now. Though I guess on the plus they are going to start charging them in novemeber/december so they won't really be bleeding as much money as they were before.

On a slight edit, the other reason why I"m posting this is because it's just disheartening while XIV gets this extravagant and quite beautiful looking adjustment over the next few months all we know about XI is they are still doing the pumpkin contest. .. . Hurray? It be nice if perhaps we could get some news to blow us out of the water and revitalize the game.

With only around 30k subscribers (and that number likely to go down once they start charging) I imagine it will be bleeding money only slightly less than it is now.

[Krashport]

Once SE start charging them, I'd say about 80% of FFXIV members will jump ship and quit, most are there just for the free ride.

[Rearden]

So November/December is when the FFXI subscription rate increases? Got ya.

[Runespider]

When you have your playerbase addicted is the point you can treat them like crap, the sub fee has remained the same since release and the quality and amount of content we get in updates gets less and less all the time.

FFXIV is a whole different situation though, they are putting so much effort it to fix it because it's all about saving face. If they actually do manage to turn it around they will syphon almost all that staff off and run it the same as they run FFXI.

[Greatguardian]

I'd guess at closer to 5 people on the FFXI Dev team. Maybe 10. It's not like they're making a new game or expansion, they're just working with a development toolkit and existing code.

[Runespider]

I'd guess at closer to 5 people on the FFXI Dev team. Maybe 10. It's not like they're making a new game or expansion, they're just working with a development toolkit and existing code.

As sad as it is, this is probably very close to the number. Last patch was laughable and they didnt even add what they said they would.

[Zumi]

Didn't they say the had 6 people on 11?

[esoR]

minimum size for a dev team doing this much work is about 20-30. any less and the updates would take 3 times as long, and they would be biannually. (and tiny by comparison)

[Greatguardian]

minimum size for a dev team doing this much work is about 20-30. any less and the updates would take 3 times as long, and they would be biannually. (and tiny by comparison)

Where in the world are you getting those numbers from? They don't need artists or engine work done. They just need a few people to work with a pre-developed toolkit to generate new content.