Final Fantasy XIV is failing so much... that they're hiring :D

[Murugan]

.....ok and? they need more programers to add to the current team to get things done faster... your point?

That for profit business don't generally hire more employees for a project unless they believe in its ability to turn a greater profit as a result.

For people who play an MMO it is always a good sign when the company is investing more money in it. At this point most MMO studios like Funcom/SOE/Mythic are cannibalizing the team to move them to different projects.

After Vanguard's launch for example (which is pretty comparable to XIV's) they herded most of their developers into a parking lot and shot them.... or laid them off suddenly one of the two. Either way hiring more people is a much better sign.

[Jennestia]

That for profit business don't generally hire more employees for a project unless they believe in its ability to turn a greater profit as a result.

Uh..in game development we hire/fire/shift around people all the time as most are working as a contract worker. It's nothing new and it means nothing. It's typical practice in this field.

[Abriael]

Uh..in game development we hire/fire/shift around people all the time as most are working as a contract worker. It's nothing new and it means nothing. It's typical practice in this field.

In game development companies that have a project they aren't confident in, tend to shift people *out* of that team (or out of the door), not in

[Kiote]

Uh..in game development we hire/fire/shift around people all the time as most are working as a contract worker. It's nothing new and it means nothing. It's typical practice in this field.

Yea I don't know what your talking about, All four companies I have worked for never once hired a single person for a project they thought was going to fail. In fact they often pulled people off the project slowly to minimize the number of people they had to lay off when it did fail.

[Jennestia]

Yea I don't know what your talking about, All four companies I have worked for never once hired a single person for a project they thought was going to fail. In fact they often pulled people off the project slowly to minimize the number of people they had to lay off when it did fail.

Where did I say I was talking about a project that's failing? Especially considering the OP's post was of a sarcastic nature? You must be confusing people's posts. I don't know which companies you worked at, but it's clearly not one that deals with contract workers and likely used stable employees.

Especially considering the project I've seen not doing well they cancelled it and shifted those members to the more AA/AAA title.

[Abriael]

Where did I say I was talking about a project that's failing? Especially considering the OP's post was of a sarcastic nature?

The fact is that hiring 11 employees all at the same time does mean something, that, at the very least for Square Enix' human resources department, this project isn't failing

[XxOstiaxX]

The fact is that hiring 11 employees all at the same time does mean something, that, at the very least for Square Enix' human resources department, this project isn't failing

This project is Failing! Everyday that they dont charge they are loosing money, every patch that passes and there is no content, the game is failing, now i'm not saying the game could not succeed, but right now all is doing is failing hard.