So sick of prioritisation

[Kiroh]

Hate to break this to you but FFXI didn't have chocobo's for the first 4-5 months in JP Beta. Now should SE have learned in the 10 years since XI has been out? Probably. But don't go around acting like they owe you something just because the name "Final Fantasy" is on it.

Believe it or not, FFXI is not the sum of the entire final fantasy series. Hate to break it to you but chocobos have been in 90% of the FF games, and it's been a hell of a lot longer than 4-5 months since this game was released.

That you believe SE owes the players, which have made the company the success it is today absolutely nothing is ridiculous and just plain sad.

[Richard]

Believe it or not, FFXI is not the sum of the entire final fantasy series. Hate to break it to you but chocobos have been in 90% of the FF games, and it's been a hell of a lot longer than 4-5 months since this game was released.

That you believe SE owes the players, which have made the company the success it is today absolutely nothing is ridiculous and just plain sad.

Believe it or not FFXI has been the sum of the entire final fantasy series in regards to MMO's. MMO's are much more coding intensive than console games. Scripting an entire mount system, physics, animations and skinning over a persistent world on a hardware server takes twice as long as coding it onto a disc. Considering that the dev team has been a failure for the last year or two, the company has lost numerous amounts of resources right in the middle of XIV development and the fact that they are rebuilding most of the core features from the ground up gives me enough rationality to see why they would be put in late.

FFXIV will be part of the 90% FF titles with chocobos. The XIV Dev team will not bend its prioritization on your incessant QQing over x and y. They will develop and release on the time schedule they have planned and they will get the game in am enjoyable state sooner rather than later.

[Kiroh]

Believe it or not FFXI has been the sum of the entire final fantasy series in regards to MMO's. MMO's are much more coding intensive than console games. Scripting an entire mount system, physics, animations and skinning over a persistent world on a hardware server takes twice as long as coding it onto a disc. Considering that the dev team has been a failure for the last year or two, the company has lost numerous amounts of resources right in the middle of XIV development and the fact that they are rebuilding most of the core features from the ground up gives me enough rationality to see why they would be put in late.

FFXIV will be part of the 90% FF titles with chocobos. The XIV Dev team will not bend its prioritization on your incessant QQing over x and y. They will develop and release on the time schedule they have planned and they will get the game in am enjoyable state sooner rather than later.

I'd rather they had released the game in an enjoyable state in the first place.

That aside, like I said before they haven't really changed much of anything since release except a few quests and NMs. I have not seen a SINGLE SYSTEM in the last 9 months that was rebuilt from anything up, much less the ground, except perhaps the targeting system (which they somehow made even worse).

I get that they need to have priorities, what I don't like or agree with is the rationalization that every single thing they change should justifiably take 9 months+.

[Malakhim]

...I have not seen a SINGLE SYSTEM in the last 9 months that was rebuilt from anything up...

Of course you haven't, because they're rebuilding them.

...Anyhow, I really honestly honestly don't get why some people don't understand that SE just went threw a Dev changing overhaul 4ish months back...

People who aren't in managerial positions can't understand the logistics of restructuring an entire company, work flow, teams, and let alone a game engine they themselves have admitted to being a bad idea on multiple occasions.