COVID showed why the Developers need to release Relic content sooner.

[TheRealQuah]

175 Days.

That is how long it took to drop 5.3 from the previous patch.

And during that time we could have been working on the more grindy bits / stages of our relic.

Simply put: Relic content needs to be released MUCH sooner than it currently is and has been in the past, IMHO it should be released on the X.1 patch.

Releasing it earlier provides a safe, reliable fall back in cases where there is a lull in content. That's the point of relic, to be grinded out. Something to keep players busy.

If Relic content was to be released in x.1 then the expansion itself would suffer with less content. Do people not understand how long things take to develop? There's not enough time between x.0 and x.1 to develop the kind of relic content we are getting.

Using COVID as a reason to complain about lack of content is just ridiculous. There's plenty of content in this game that you could've been working towards in that 175 days but chose not to.

[Deceptus]

If Relic content was to be released in x.1 then the expansion itself would suffer with less content. Do people not understand how long things take to develop? There's not enough time between x.0 and x.1 to develop the kind of relic content we are getting.
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You act like the developers can't multitask and develop multiple pieces of content at once. Besides, lets be honest, most of the content in FFXIV is re-using the same assets just in different ways. It's not like they're re-inventing the wheel here.

Have they been short staffed over the years? Yes, and that's 100% on them at this point. Since 2.0 they haven't invested in gaining new employees much, yet when things get pushed back it's "oh, they're short staffed".

Has COVID made it worse? Yes. But having the right people power to get ahead of issues is important for any company, SE is no different.