How many are working with this game?

[Cutriss]

It is a good job -- most people were like "if you like XI so much why don't you go back to it?" Funny how cynicism can backfire huh? lol.

Not as funny as how blind patriotism and support backfires by making you suffer through the same problems for years because nobody was willing to challenge the status quo.

[Gundammeister]

100!? Wow. Hey, you know I usually lean towards SE's favor in most posts, but I totally did not think they had more than 12 people assigned to this project. There has to be an asterisk next to that number. Like there are 100 people working in the office and they each take a turn one day a week working on FF14. That would seem more realistic. However I would love for them to lay 1.18 on us like "BLAM" take that bitches, and have it be the 9 month columniation of 100 people's hard work in all it's glory.

[Betelgeuzah]

It's more like 120 or so.

I can't see more than 20 working on the monthly patches though.

[Captaindownsyndrome]

100!? Wow. Hey, you know I usually lean towards SE's favor in most posts, but I totally did not think they had more than 12 people assigned to this project. There has to be an asterisk next to that number. Like there are 100 people working in the office and they each take a turn one day a week working on FF14. That would seem more realistic. However I would love for them to lay 1.18 on us like "BLAM" take that bitches, and have it be the 9 month columniation of 100 people's hard work in all it's glory.

got to say that would be cool if it happed

[Alexis_Arteme]

I'm to the point where I wish they would kill it, and give us a free pass to their next MMO and put us out of our misery.

[giftforce]

I read somewhere that the workforce was around 50 people during development but most of those people have other roles within SE now and that there is no dedicated staff.

[Rinsui]

I still don't believe that's true, but if it is, it looks like they're spending more time with XI than XIV, judging by the updates to POL.

Ha! So it's not only me!
I also realized that FFXI seems to get a ton of small updates lately!
Like as if they realized that it will have to live a few months longer until 14 is ready.

[Betelgeuzah]

I'm to the point where I wish they would kill it, and give us a free pass to their next MMO and put us out of our misery.

Damn, what an addict you are.

[LateReg]

Assuming they didn't just furlough their art staff, I think it'd be safe to assume we should be seeing 6 months of armor/weapon/mob design fairly soon. The last time we had more than a few models added to the game was the original December NM patch.

Wow, it's been a really, really long time.

[rainfish]

This game has a really small full time staff, whatever numbers they gave are a lie or adding on stupid stuff like the tea lady XD

Having said that since it's draining money it's understandable, lucky it's around at all the shape it's in let alone having a massive staff.