Have a nice vacation Devs :)

[Lexia]

I find it kind of funny people running to the defense of the dev team, unless I read stuff wrong I don't think anyone was attacking the dev team personally but the company that employs them that being SE.

such as this quote below.

Does your work stop doing anything and push back deadlines because of it? If so your company has terrible planning.

[Iromi]

But to all the people who's complaining they took a vacation

Straw man? I have not seen one person complain that they took a vacation.

Most I've seen is basically,

Does your work stop doing anything and push back deadlines because of it? If so your company has terrible planning.

Which is justified, easily.

[Vickii]

I know it's kinda mmo-community thing to always talk bad about everything and the dev team etc, but I really love the clear heart that goes into this game. It's probably my favourite thing about it to be honest, the hildibrand quests, the theme when you ride the magitek and the rising event just show how much they love making it. I hope they have a good break

[Selli]

Hush both of you, don't ruin one of the few moments where we're not at each other's necks around here

Psh! I'm sure we can have one thread where everyone is ni--

Does your work stop doing anything and push back deadlines because of it? If so your company has terrible planning.

Oh.

Welp. My salt shaker was almost empty anyway.

[Dyvid]

Not a soul is telling the developers to never take a break or have a vacation, if that's what they get from these threads they are as blind as some white-knights are acting who think the team can do no wrong.

They will perhaps not give the entire team (Or at least word it as such) and delay content because of their poor planning. Hopefully if anything the complains will force upper managments hands and give them some well deserved staffing solutions instead of running the game on a skeleton crew. For all you know the devs are cheering the dissenters on because they themselves are also tired of having such a small team for a big task.

Pretty much this. I'm glad they took a break and hoped they played volleyball in Hawaii but if work and development on the game suffers then SE has problems. No business should come to a screeching halt because employees take a week or two off. SE needs to ramp up the development team of FFXIV to go along with the incredible success the game has done.

the theme when you ride the magitek

Actually this came about because of community complaints two years ago. We don't complain because of being haters, we complain because we want positive changers that works for everyone.

[Sakuraluna]

I'm going to echo the sentiment in the OP... In the live letters and similar media they've always looked like they could use a vacation, they've met some important deadlines and worked hard for it, they deserve some time off. I wouldn't start worrying about the quality and consistency of the updates going downhill until it starts to become a trend. Which we haven't even had our first big update yet, and even if it's a bit delayed it still sounds like it'll be packed with new content.

[Altera]

[QUOTE=SakuralunaI'm going to echo the sentiment in the OP. I wouldn't start worrying about the quality and consistency of the updates going downhill until it starts to become a trend. Which we haven't even had our first big update yet, and even if it's a bit delayed it still sounds like it'll be packed with new content.[/QUOTE]

Until they start acting like WoW's devs with 6-14months content gaps, and Selfies/Twitter/QOL improvements/class balancing being considered a Major Patch, I do not think we have to worry too much about that.
I honestly believe personally that this timeout is a onetime thing given that they probably have worked tirelessly for over 3 years, as it was in mid 2011 they decided to scrap the old and remake XIV into ARR and I havent heard them had vacations during that time.
They have flown all over the world promoting the game, not wasting time and money, as some people say, as well as delivered on schedule for 3 years now with not much delays at all.

[Spellbinder]

Welp, didn't take long for this thread to go sour. Nice try though OP.

[Goodberry]

Dear devs, I hope your vacation was as pleasant as you deserved, i.e. a lot.
I couldn't care less if it means we won't have a patch in the usual 3-months schedule. You have Old Goodberry's word that nothing bad will happen to Eorzea in the meanwhile.
I am having a ton of fun in the game. Thanks for that!

[TruebladeNuke]

As much as there is a lot of bellyaching on any game forum, the important thing to take away from complaints is that they are there for a reason. A company should keep it in mind and look at the cause for them. Another perspective to look at is the fact that the people making said complaints are criticizing a product, because they care enough to do so. Criticisms are points from where a company can look at to improve their product.

Everyone has different things to complain about and will thus weigh other concerns that one player has more or less versus another, and in the end the dev team decides what the route is, but complaints and criticism still help to build a game.

I find myself having to agree with this and liking the post. Indeed. That is why criticism exists. It's the truth that said criticism can be used to improve a product. My own personal beef with criticism stems from the fact that most who do criticize tend to do nothing to point out what they LIKED about the game... usually. Might stem from that "If it's good, why bother talking about it?" mentality some people have.

Sadly though, I don't think there IS any way to make criticism sound nice. And for me personally, I've always seen criticism as a very odd way of saying you like the game... especially since everyone has different things they want out of a game, which of course clashes with other fans. That's just me though.

I still share the OP's sentiment though.