November? really?

[Khemorex]

The whole "The dev team went on vacation for a month" is really a poor excuse for such a huge company as SE is, i mean they should know better, you don't just send your whole team on vacation for a whole month at the same time and halt development, wtf? Did they all go on some FFXIV 18th floor roadtrip team vacation?

why not ? you can still go play something else if ur that bored and come bk for 3.1 no one is forcing you to play and pay a subcription.

[Pibz]

why not ? you can still go play something else if ur that bored and come bk for 3.1 no one is forcing you to play and pay a subcription.

What on earth does that have to do with anything?!
I didn't say i was bored . Nor did i say i have run out of content, etc because whether i have or not is irrelevant... I said "dev vacation for however long" was a bad excuse/dev practice...
Go white knight response someone else please. Or actually respond to me in context.

[Xairos]

What on earth does that have to do with anything?!
I didn't say i was bored. I said "dev vacation for a whole month" was a bad excuse/dev practice...
Go white knight response someone else please

Your anger (maybe not just YOU per se but Pibz as well) is based on an opinion not a fact. We DONT know how long the vacation was for. To assume it was for a month because the patch is delayed from the expected Oct to a month from that to Nov is poor logic.
Thus, you are essentially White Knighting your baseless emotions and lack of facts because you believe them to be true.

The only thing I defend is their vacation. Because they are human. The timing is largely irrelevant as most people will drop in November because of Fallout 4 (i assume). As such, the super dedicated (who will be subbed to that point anyway) will remain and enjoy the content. Fin

[Pibz]

Your anger is based on an opinion not a fact. We DONT know how long the vacation was for. To assume it was for a month because the past is delayed from the expected Oct to a month from that to Nov is poor logic.
Thus, you are essentially White Knighting your baseless emotions and lack of facts because you believe them to be true.

"Anger", "bored". Stop inferring stuff into my text ffs. If anything it's you people getting "emotional" over "your" game receiving any kind of criticism and thus attacking me instead of my point (because yes inferring emotions into text that doesn't even clue into any is bad argument construction, and is irrelevant to my point).
I thought i had read somewhere that they said it was 1 month. There i fixed my post, doesn't change anything. So we don't know, it doesn't matter. The fact that they couldn't manage regular employee vacation without prolonging the dev cycle to the longest gap there's ever been is STILL bad practice/poor excuse, you just can't get away from how bad of an excuse it is.
I don't care even remotely it was delayed, but don't (dev team/SE) excuse yourself to the playerbase with your poor management.

Oh and just as a note, if they took a much smaller than 1 month vacation, and it ended up extending the dev cycle for 1 and half to 2 months ( the supposed cycle is 3/3 and a half months), it's not that it's bad logic to assume they took one month vacation (it's actually reasonable), but that something weirder/even in poorer form is going on in there.