@all the people saying "but did you see yoshi-p cry on stream doe": yes we did. We feel bad for him because we know the stress he must be going through. No one is blaming him, but him being upset doesn't suddenly invalidate everyone's complaints. Because Yoshi-P is a developer in FFXIV. He doesn't own FFXIV. The company, Square Enix, does.

And as a company, if they set a deadline at which the game will be released, it's their responsibility to make sure they meet it.

SPECIALLY since content was cut in order to meet this deadline, and specially with the amount of attention the game's been getting lately.

Hire more people, reassing people from other teams, push back the OCE server release, spend less resources in promoting the game and more in actually developing the game, DO NOT kidnap the game's head developer into developing another game no one asked for nor cared for more than a decade (because it's time Square Enix faces the reality that no one cares about main line FF games anymore after 3 failures). And if the world suddenly exploding is still causing you issues early on in the development cycle push the release date back then and there just to be safe, not 2 weeks before the deadline.

Anywho that's my 2 "wow u so toxic" cents. wks are welcome