The Current Status of FFXIV Patch 3.1 and How to Address it Moving Forward

[Alahra]

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That the team is already greatly strapped for development resources and time is well known. Trying to ask them to do more than what they are currently doing and maintain the current release schedule without sacrificing something (or getting a bigger team, which, at this point, seems unlikely) is naive. While we all want more, we still have to recognize the limitations of the reality that is the game's development.

Any new type of content they design is going to by necessity mean they don't create or work on some other type of content, unless they move to a longer development cycle (but given that players already disengage toward the end of each 3 month patch cycle, that would go even worse for them). If the team had access to resources beyond what they already have, they could do more, but the fact of the matter is that they don't right now, and they're spread thin trying to meet their relatively aggressive patch cycle as it is.