Letter From the Producer IX.

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

All game development takes a long time, it's been a standard since the 70s. The time varies but as technology grew so did development time. Most games these days take 1.5-5 years to produce, MMORPG wise, updates takes months to years to produce and you generally hear about it when it's about to be released.

Agreed. Unless you're talking about games like Diablo III which is going on 8+ years of development! Also, it's a Blizzard game for those forum goers that think Blizzard is the golden child and can accomplish anything in half the time it is taking SE. News flash: They can't.

[Cairdeas]

Some studios are better than other, most times it takes a long time, take D3 for example. Quality Control.

But then take TERA which has an insane update speed.

A call of duty game takes 2 years to create even with an fully steady built engine. Hell codmw3 is being developped by 3 studios lol But thats because IW are only in it for 1 year to ensure quality.

IW doesn't exist.

[Quisi]

Agreed. Unless you're talking about games like Diablo III which is going on 8+ years of development! Also, it's a Blizzard game for those forum goers that think Blizzard is the golden child and can accomplish anything in half the time it is taking SE. News flash: They can't.

At least when Blizzard releases something it's polished and fun.. SE is slow on updates and most of their recent patches were pathetic. At the same time I think most of their patches weren't good because they were working on some big changes at the same time. Let's hope patch 1.18 will be bigger and add something good to the game.

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

Some studios are better than other, most times it takes a long time, take D3 for example. Quality Control.

But then take TERA which has an insane update speed.

A call of duty game takes 2 years to create even with an fully steady built engine. Hell codmw3 is being developped by 3 studios lol But thats because IW are only in it for 1 year to ensure quality.

TERA having a fast update speed isn't comparable to FFXIV. FFXIV is still very much in development and doesn't have a stable base to start pumping out 'updates' on.

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

At least when Blizzard releases something it's polished and fun.. SE is slow on updates and most of their recent patches were pathetic. At the same time I think most of their patches weren't good because they were working on some big changes at the same time. Let's hope patch 1.18 will be bigger and add something good to the game.

Part of your post is based on your own opinion, but I will breeze past that. Most people on these forums agree that FFXIV was rushed to release. With that said, the game is still very much in a DEVELOPMENT phase. Therefore the "update schedule" is far different for this game than for MMOs that are ready on release. SE is not just updating content, they are still developing the game which accounts for their seemingly painfully slow process.

[Nuru]

TERA having a fast update speed isn't comparable to FFXIV. FFXIV is still very much in development and doesn't have a stable base to start pumping out 'updates' on.

Let alone all of the spaghetti code being found. You can easily tell that this game was rushed, and that they didn't decide the deadline for themselves. However, even with all of the stringy codes, they have a pretty solid base to work with adding new code and re-organizing everything. Its must faster for them to pump out these updates than it would be if they had to completely redeisgn the game from scratch. In other words, they are working as fast as they can. They want to make money as fast as we want our updates.

As big of a game as this should've been, is being made into that game right now, with Tanaka (NOT CANNED) behind the scenes, implementing what he planned to implement. (With this said, no more whining about wanting Tanaka back, he is still with us.)

[Jennestia]

At least when Blizzard releases something it's polished and fun.. SE is slow on updates and most of their recent patches were pathetic. At the same time I think most of their patches weren't good because they were working on some big changes at the same time. Let's hope patch 1.18 will be bigger and add something good to the game.

Seiken Densetsu 1 - 4 was amazing.
Chrono Trigger was and still is considered one of the best RPGs around
Chrono Cross was amazing
Xenogears was amazing.
Final Fantasy I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, Tactics, Crystal Chronicles and Tactics 2 were amazing.
Romancing Saga 1 - 3 were amazing.
Saga Frontier was great.
Valkyrie Profile/Vagrant Story was amazing.
The World Ends with You was amazing
Kingdom Hearts was great.
Dissidia/Duodecim was amazing.

So yes, SE does make great fun games.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

Where I live, June is a summer month.

and where language isn't an opionion, somewhere in spring isn't june, but a period starting from june to august. Got a problem ?

[Mug]

and where language isn't an opionion, somewhere in spring isn't june, but a period starting from june to august. Got a problem ?

I'm not even sure what you mean, but I'm fairly sure June is considered a summer month most places in the world.

[Quisi]

Seiken Densetsu 1 - 4 was amazing.
Chrono Trigger was and still is considered one of the best RPGs around
Chrono Cross was amazing
Xenogears was amazing.
Final Fantasy I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, Tactics, Crystal Chronicles and Tactics 2 were amazing.
Romancing Saga 1 - 3 were amazing.
Saga Frontier was great.
Valkyrie Profile/Vagrant Story was amazing.
The World Ends with You was amazing
Kingdom Hearts was great.
Dissidia/Duodecim was amazing.

So yes, SE does make great fun games.

Did I say SE makes bad games? They used to make very good games but you can't deny that Blizzard is still making good games. You can like or dislike their games but at least they are playable.