Wow 250 people are working on FFXIV

[Gramul]

Guess I'm the only one who's not surprised to hear 250 people working on this game.

Most large scale games (especially MMO's) require a lot of work, it only makes sense.

I think a lot of people where assuming Square wasn't taking this game seriously. Like they just sent some random developer and his friends on it to tweak it enough so they could charge for it or drop it when they decide it's not worth tweaking anymore. That the area redesign would just be a few tweaks like adding a fancy tree or ruins here and there and maybe opening up The Black Shroud a little.

[Irondude]

It's just sad that outside the community, all you hear is negative articles 3 pages long, then at the end like one line (oh but they said they are working on fixing it). NO SERIOUSLY, it's a flagship game that most of the company is working to restore band name loyalty with. This will be the final fantasy Square won't soon forget.

I just hope the failure helps them to make better final fantasy games PAST 14 and doesn't end next year.

[Abriael]

That is way more than i though before i read that letter from Wada.

Not one bit surprised. When I told that the team was still hiring new people the usual hatemongers flew in my face screaming that it was impossible for Square Enix to actually invest resources into this game.

Well, there you have it. Changes like the ones we're seeing aren't done with a handful of people.

250 people working on one game is almost unheard of. I think the reason it is so large is because SE is trying to pump out a new Game Engine and Server Client within a year.

Really now. 250 people is not really far from the average of any AAA MMORPG studio. CCP has 600. Granted, that includes administrative staff and they're working on 3 games, but 250 is definitely heard of, if not common.

i'm assuming this is the reason FFXIII VERSUS hasn't been updated

yeah because Square Enix has only 250 employees, and don't actually have multiple teams and more than 3300, right?

Oh wait...

[zed32]

Guess I'm the only one who's not surprised to hear 250 people working on this game.

Most large scale games (especially MMO's) require a lot of work, it only makes sense.

Yeah most... Not failure of ones that most of us thought Square was trying to brush under the rug.

[Abriael]

Yeah most... Not failure of ones that most of us thought Square was trying to brush under the rug.

A game isn't a "failure" until it closes. And if you thought that Square was trying to brush Final Fantasy XIV under the run, well, now you know you were wrong. It's not like we haven't been telling you just that.

[WinnipegJet]

It's just sad that outside the community, all you hear is negative articles 3 pages long, then at the end like one line (oh but they said they are working on fixing it). NO SERIOUSLY, it's a flagship game that most of the company is working to restore band name loyalty with. This will be the final fantasy Square won't soon forget.

I just hope the failure helps them to make better final fantasy games PAST 14 and doesn't end next year.

I'm not being naive, but this game is far from being down and out. The PS3 release is likely to bring a huge influx of new players, primarily the console gamer in Japan. Old users will be attracted back knowing that they're getting a game from free. Yes, I hope they have learned their lesson from this excursion, but enough of this bullshit doom and gloom. The right actions are being taken and no one can ask for anything more than that.

Also, 250 people is awesome news.

[Abriael]

Also, 250 people is awesome news.

Fact is that it's not news. It takes an amazing amount of naivete to think that the kind of changes we're seeing currently in FFXIV (and I mean what we've already seen so far, not in the future) can be done by a smaller team.

[WinnipegJet]

Fact is that it's not news. It takes an amazing amount of naivete to think that the kind of changes we're seeing currently in FFXIV (and I mean what we've already seen so far, not in the future) can be done by a smaller team.

You're probably right, but I expected like 50 people... which isn't small. 250 is huge.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

I just realized that most of the content we've got was just filler this whole time and what they've been really working on is a new world entirely and a new graphics engine. LOL

Totally beyond what I anticipated and wow they are really giving it their all with that 250 member team.

[Abriael]

You're probably right, but I expected like 50 people... which isn't small. 250 is huge.

50 people is a VERY small team for a MMORPG.