That is a interesting comment. That works in their favour not against them.
I totally understand everyone's concerns regarding this delay. It totally sucks that the delay is happening and at a time of year when for most people getting time off (PTO, etc) is nearly impossible. I feel no one should be expressing disdain, etc. regarding how people choose to use their PTO. It's their PTO and if they want to use it to play video games more power to them.
As to the development team, again I totally understand their concerns and why they felt they needed to delay the launch of the game for 2 weeks. You want to do some last minute housekeeping, you want to make sure the game is amazing for your players and I totally love this care for your players.
However, I am very disappointed, if not upset that you market items on the mogstation knowing that the lunch would be delayed. Yes the 50% off sale. If you knew the game was going to be delayed you should have let the players know this at the time it was 100% certain. Before you setup a marketing scheme to play on people that needed that last little push to complete jobs to 80, I am one of these people.
If I had known I would have 2 extra weeks to grind out my last 2 jobs, I probably would not have purchased the tales of adventure given that I had the full picture of the status of the new release. But in my eyes FFXIV pulled a marketing ploy directly from Blizzard's game-book, actually Wizards of the Coast might be a better comparison. Where you knew the game would be delayed, but yet you still marketed to your players in a way that gave the impression that the expansion wasn't delayed. Then you waited a full week to release this information, allowing more players the chance to feel pressured to buy something they might not have needed due to time constraints.
Very disappointed in the game but more so I'm kicking myself that I fell for your marketing ploy to "Jump Start my adventures" in time for endwalker. Just not letting us know there would be a 2 week delay.
Touche! This type of sickness must be PURGED!
lmao i should use that on my professors when they ask for my assignments. be like "stop being upset that i didn't submit it on time. it sucks that it might screw up your plans. BUT THAT'S ON YOU. Not me. Take a step back and put yourself in my shoes for once. Guaranteed you would see things very differently" haha
but for real, you don't get to tell ppl how to feel. and its 100% on SE. that's why yoshida is so upset. he knows he let ppl down.
as a university student, the delay doesn't affect me, but it does mean my gf likely won't be able to get time off for launch now. its gonna be lonely at server up.
I don't get the logic of lashing out at people who don't share your opinion. /shrug