Honestly I'm getting sick of coming on here expecting a patch and seeing a message that every single patch for almost half a year has been delayed from one week up to 3 weeks so far. When employees are late to work what do you do, you fire them. SE, your goal was to release this patch end of november, your excuse is as for the last few patches you need to bug test, thats great, none of us want a buggy patch. But if the problem is your unable to CONSTANTLY release patches without a 7-21 released delay, I think you need to stop letting employees play PS3 Home on extended 2 hour lunches and talking about the game rather then sitting at their desk and actually doing work. Constant delays due to more balancing is bs if its constantly been happening for half a year. Your employees are being lazy and whoever is in charge is not doing a good job of watching their work ethics. They are at work to , now pay attention here, to work. Isn't that mind bending? You get a job to do your job? Speechless comes to mind of the concept. *sarcasim?* Get your job done, were getting sick the excuses. If you can't fit everything promised into the patch by that time frame even with everyone doing their job then perhaps you should consider focusing on more accurate release times instead of these release times estimated as if you had godly programmers, cause lets face it, right now? You don't.
I do believe the promise to release timely patches was something used to hold over the people invested into Square-Enix stock. How delighted would they be to discover they were lied to half a year ago when you all were trying to save face and prevent a complete plummet.
Corporate not allowing enough employees on the project because they don't want to anny up more positions cause they want that brand new dodge viper or skyline the second the next gen comes out next year? Stop eating from the CEOs hands kissing butt and tell them how it is from a realistic stand point. If you need more employees to make these times, get it through their heads that after half a year your still unable to with the current staff they need to not take that 30000$ vacation this year and anny up. Corporate pigs.