Quote Originally Posted by Darkpaw View Post
They’ve acknowledged one. ONE. Flaw that hinders them. The spaghetti code the game is built on from the initial rebuild of 1.x..
There is a second flaw they've acknowledged, and that's a lack of available experienced Japanese game programmers (or programmers that speak Japanese passably enough to be hired full time. Those guys are worth their weight in gold, and the only one I know of works for ICE at Naughty Dog - not the US agency, the graphics development division for Sony.) SE doesn't like to outsource because every time they try it, it blow up in their faces and they end up bringing it back in house half the time anyway.

Instead what they've had to do is hire people slowly for the XIV team and train them up, and it could be a full expansion cycle before their new people are experienced enough to strike out on their own projects. Brooks Law is alive and well in 2021: Hiring additional programming staff for an already late project will only serve to make the project even later.