Patches take too long to come out. Please Hire more staff

[Rydin]

For them to make patches on time they would have to increase the development staff by 20%. This would make faster released content and better testing before releasing to early to meet patch due dates.

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Square stated some time ago it takes them too long to produce games. They are simply slow.
When it comes to XIV most of the team is working on 2.0 so it's good if at least 50% of devs are working on current patches.

I saw that too... and I think I'm the only one with mixed emotions about it
Yes, Assassin's Creed games.. and Call of duty games come out at a faster rate
But lets be honest.. whats the tradeoff... what REALLY changes from game to game?
In call of duty... not the engine... Not the mechanics... many weapons stay the same....
For Assassin's creed, the engine changed names but is still essentially the same
Final fantasy has a different engine.. different mechanics... different characters in every game
Thats one of it's biggest pulls.. the innovation... and that takes time
Why do you think GTA games take so long to come out...
Not to step on any toes but "Call of Duty" sequels would be called "Expansion packs" in my world....

[Wolfie]

You know, there's a principle in software development that says there is a point where if you add more members to a development team, the project will progress even more slowly.

[Velhart]

Topic with the OP complaining about the game's development without taking time to learn how gaming development works #234345.

This is fast compared to other MMO's. Especially with them basically making one game better while working on a new one at the same time. The developers always express how hard they are working on the game, especially with Yoshida putting massive amounts of hours a day to get the game rolling. People are simply not appreciative of their hard work, despite if you like what they are giving to you or not.

[Betelgeuzah]

I heard 9 women working together can deliver a baby in 1 month!

[Rydin]

You know, there's a principle in software development that says there is a point where if you add more members to a development team, the project will progress even more slowly.

Its like using 100 people to make a simple birthday cake....
or 100 people to change oil

Only so many things can be done in parallel
Like the battle formulas and changes had to be in place before new gear stats could be decided on.
And both of those had to be done before you could overhaul food effects
Some problems aren't fixed by just throwing more people at them

[Rydin]

I heard 9 women working together can deliver a baby in 1 month!

My new favorite quote.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Dragon]

Either way you look at it, getting 8 women pregnant does not get them to produce a single baby in only a month.

Furthermore, even if your favorite sports team has the best athletes per position in the world, it's not going to work unless they cooperate and communicate together (though if they are the best at what they do, they should be communicating and cooperating quite well under the reality what they're good at involves a cooperative sport).

Whatever problems SE is having are due to cooperation & communication.

[Raldo]

Four pages and this has barely been mentioned? Sheesh.

Why is content slow coming out? Because a bulk of the development work is likely being spent on 2.0 stuff.

So you have two options. Would you rather get faster/more 1.x content that will get scrapped when 2.0 comes out, or would you rather have 2.0 come out sooner?

The correct answer is the one that has 2.0 coming out as soon as possible.

[DeadRiser]

They don't need to do a thing. They are working as hard as they can... if it's that bad, the door is over there... the red box in the upper right corner with an "[SIZE="5"]x[/SIZE]" in it..

[Laughlyn]

Here's an idea...what if they skipped current content for our current FFXIV version, would we get 2.0 faster?

If thats the case, hell give me your current 2.0 engine no matter how unfinished / polished it is.

Could'nt be in worse state than the current Beta version was.