November? really?

[Dyvid]

Why don't they just release content as they finish it instead of waiting for huge patches? Staggering it out so you have something you can drop everything month might not be a bad thing. I remember in SWTOR we waiting on a certain feature for months because the PvP part was delaying the big patch. Most the community was just getting annoyed with the whole thing and telling the devs to release what they had and catch PvP up later.

As for the devs and their time off, sure they earned some rest but when your an adult you work 40+ hours a week, 54 weeks a year. Sometimes you have to put in 60 to 80 hours a week to get things done. I know if my company told the customer "Sorry but we need to delay the product a month because our people need time off" we would get laughed at and told to either hire more people to stay on schedule or pay stiff fines as per contract.

A lot of people seem to be conflating "There's nothing *I* want to do" with "There's nothing to do." The two things are not the same at all. Objectively, there are many, many things to do in the game; someone not wanting to do some or all of them is not a flaw with the game itself, but rather their own personal opinion. Which they're entitled to have, but let's not pretend that it's an objective fact, because it isn't. There is a HUGE amount of content available in the game for those who want to take advantage of all of it.

Which is very true but you can't force people log in daily to play content they have no interest in. 3 months development cycle has been good for FFXIV because that was the right time people finished up what ever personal goals they had. Now you are tacking on two more months and almost everyone has finished up Alex Norm, Eso Gear, and what ever else they wanted to do. Expect October to be a slow month.