November? really?

To be completely fair, the server move and the VR Titan fight probably took some time to made as well

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Originally Posted by Kaurie

Just going to give an analogy about false expectations.

Imagine you go to a cell phone store and the rep says you get 1GB per month data plan. Great, sign up.

then 4 months down the road you prepay for your 5th month. Suddenly, a week later the cell phone company broadcasts "Hey, we're all going on vacation, so for the next 2 months you get 500 MB instead of 1 GB. No discounts. Cheers". Should you be happy with this? Should you be OK with this? No. You were specifically told before payment what to expect, and then you paid. Then you got something else.

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Main difference is that you can't drop and resume a cell phone plan with nothing wasted. 14's a product; if you want something to change, the most effective way is to vote with your wallet. If they lose enough money they'd probably just can Yoshida, which I'm sure a lot of people here would love.

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Originally Posted by Daralii

Main difference is that you can't drop and resume a cell phone plan with nothing wasted. 14's a product; if you want something to change, the most effective way is to vote with your wallet. If they lose enough money they'd probably just can Yoshida, which I'm sure a lot of people here would love.

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Yes, I already unsubbed. It was hard to think of a direct comparison. Not many things have subs. It's particularly frustrating, because I either pay 33% more, or I buy 2 months at a time, so I've unsubbed, but I've already paid until the end of October.

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Originally Posted by Xellos2099

To be completely fair, the server move and the VR Titan fight probably took some time to made as well

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Big boss man tells them to make a VR and they have to.

The EU server could have probably waited if the result would end up like this. (Wait for it....)

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Originally Posted by Fjaere

Square Enix really needs to invest in a larger dev team for this game, I also dont understand how the entire dev team was able to go on vacation at once :S

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Probably wasn't all at once since people still need to run operations and take care of critical issues if they turn up.
That said, how does it matter if they go all at once or spread out? Or do you mean like... half the team go on vacation, and the other half do their own part as well as what the other half should do in that time?

Also, they probably should get more people involved... it will take time for those people to get into the work and the sooner they start, the better... Even if it's only to offload the core teams a little.

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Originally Posted by Kaurie

Just going to give an analogy about false expectations.

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I'll give you one right now. Nowhere did they ever guarantee a 3 month schedule. It is not in the terms of service. They only said their plan was to try to keep it that way. It was never promised. The idea that some of you have that they did such a promise shows how much you were not paying attention to everything they said.

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Originally Posted by Wildsprite

I'll give you one right now, nowhere did they ever guarantee a 3 month schedule. it is not in the terms of service and they only said their plan was to try to keep it that way. it was NOT promised.

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False expectations, not promises. Yoshi himself said that they would stick to a 3 month cycle in interviews. Yes, it's not in the ToS, you are right there.

It's fine if you want to keep supporting this, but to me it's not a very good business practice.

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False expectations, not promises. Yoshi himself said that they would stick to a 3 month cycle in interviews. Yes, it's not in the ToS, you are right there.

It's fine if you want to keep supporting this, but to me it's not a very good business practice.

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he said time and time again their plan was to try to stick to that schedule.

The only contract that was signed was your obligations to SE, being your ToS Agreement. I recommend reading it through. There's a clause there for delays an interruptions in service that you accepted (without looking, likely).

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I'll give you one right now. Nowhere did they ever guarantee a 3 month schedule. It is not in the terms of service. They only said their plan was to try to keep it that way. It was never promised. The idea that some of you have that they did such a promise shows how much you were not paying attention to everything they said.

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Actually Yoshida did say in an interview that they were planning a yearly, or almost year expansion release schedule, while releasing 5 major patches too. While it's not offical, anyone who read that would expect patches to be released at the same, or a faster pace than usual.


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