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

[Vesper]

give a look here
http://www.dualshockers.com/2011/09/...elopment-team/

TL-DR version, SE is hiring 11 new employees for tghe FFXIV team, and just as a juicy addition, several of those positions list "experience in console development" as a preferred trait

Chew on it

Failing? Seems to me they are giving the FFXIV team some more members as it should have so they can get things faster. More than likely this is a sign of getting ready to prep PS3 launch down the line. Probably need some more teams or members to beef up teams.

Had you said "x, y and z were fired" then maybe that would be a sign of fail. More team members is positive.

[Abriael]

How bad has the situation gotten when we argue about the meaning of 11 employees being hired into a huge organization.

Ahem, I always hate to burst a bubble (naaah, not really, I love it), but while SE is a huge organization, only a fraction of that organization is made of developers, and only a fraction of all those developers actually is part of the FFXIV team, as SE produces something like 10 or more titles at the same time.

Let's stay VERY optimistic and assume that the development team of FFXIV is 100 people strong (which is a definitely large team for a MMORPG), this means that with the new hirees the team has been increased in size by 10%, which is a rather big deal.

Failing? Seems to me they are giving the FFXIV team some more members as it should have so they can get things faster. More than likely this is a sign of getting ready to prep PS3 launch down the line. Probably need some more teams or members to beef up teams.

Had you said "x, y and z were fired" then maybe that would be a sign of fail. More team members is positive.

Someone else that needs to learn to detect sarcasm, I see

someone said this on Zam. its technically true for all businesses.
SE is after all working on a few important projects atm, whoes to say FFXIV staff is actually getting larger?

although it would make sense to expand your team if your anticipating a large surge of new/returning players and want to train people before hand for that release. interesting though.

Ah, negative nancyness, it's lovely to see how it normally conflicts with realism.

This might have been a realistic option if we were talking about a couple people. But 11 people hired all at the same time mean only one thing, bolstering the ranks. When people get moved to different projects during in a company, it doesn't happen in large chunks.

Not surprised to see that it comes from that lair of hairy trolls called ZAM though. The average IQ in that place makes this forum look like MENSA

[TonyMontana]

Ahem, I always hate to burst a bubble (naaah, not really, I love it), but while SE is a huge organization, only a fraction of that organization is made of developers, and only a fraction of all those developers actually is part of the FFXIV team, as SE produces something like 10 or more titles at the same time.

Let's stay VERY optimistic and assume that the development team of FFXIV is 100 people strong (which is a definitely large team for a MMORPG), this means that with the new hirees the team has been increased in size by 10%, which is a rather big deal.

Aww yeah baby just think if we would have had those extra 11 team members a year ago, maybe chocobos would have only taken 11 months to come out instead of 12 months!