FFXIV 6.0 comes out December 7th. Pre-release is December 3rd

[Dogempire]

A damn shame about the delay but I mean, I'd rather have a game that's tested and ironed out as best as possible than a flaming pile of "oops" and then it's Rabahn EX all over again. For me it just makes me more confident in Yoshi P's decision and the dev team.

It also is unfortunate that people who scheduled the time off to get in are upset - and I get it. In the development world of games and tech nothing EVER goes according to plan. I feel bad and hopefully y'all will be able to work around it.

For the ones who are doom and gloom and saying "This is the last straw! How dare you?!" or feeled they are owed something by the dev team or comments to that in nature - there's an unsubscribe button. Do feel free to use it at your leisure. I'm above the negative entitled nonsense and people like you will not be missed honestly. Make some room on the bandwidth for the rest of us who want to keep the ping low.

Personally I kinda hope they throw in some sort of bonus item for people who've pre-ordered Endwalker, not thinking of anything extravagant like a new mount but it would be a nice gesture to all the people whose plans have been delayed by the release date change

[Evergrey]

As I've been playing MMOs for many many years I more or less expect delays for any major content updates, be it release delays or maintenance delays.
So I know there's always a risk when taking time off work for a release as it could just get pushed back.

However, maybe developers should add some form of fineprint when announcing release dates, something like: "Date may change due to unforseen reasons"
I understand that it's not something people want to see when a release is announced.
But perhaps it's needed.

[MaikoRaines]

Personally I kinda hope they throw in some sort of bonus item for people who've pre-ordered Endwalker, not thinking of anything extravagant like a new mount but it would be a nice gesture to all the people whose plans have been delayed by the release date change

It'd be cool but the last thing I'd ask is for them to throw in something new. Maybe like... later on down the road when things are stable, on track and that pesky pandemic isn't taking a toll on everything, yeah maybe a nice "thank you!" event or something.

Personally I'd love my Flight Unit mount sooner. But I won't push my luck XD

[Dogempire]

Yeah, sorry, but that's not how it works in general. You don't notice 2 weeks earlier that you won't be making a deadline unless

a) you procastrinated and started working on said project 2 weeks before the deadline (which we know was not the case here)
b) an unexpected major incident happened (doesn't sound like it)

What this sounds like is devs knowing they needed extra time but superiors/execs telling them to crunch it till it eventually became apparent to them that that was not gonna happen, hence the 2 weeks notice.

Where are your sources? Do you work for SE? Do you know people on the inside who can update you on what's happening? Do you know what's yet to be implemented that's preventing an on-time launch?

No? Then be quiet and stop speculating because you obviously don't know what you're talking about

[Moonlite]

It'd be cool but the last thing I'd ask is for them to throw in something new. Maybe like... later on down the road when things are stable, on track and that pesky pandemic isn't taking a toll on everything, yeah maybe a nice "thank you!" event or something.

Personally I'd love my Flight Unit mount sooner. But I won't push my luck XD

I wonder how hard it would be to add every old Moogle item to the moogle event. But they probably don't have the time for that now. It would fill out 2 weeks for some people.

[Seoulstar]

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...5ce5b1eab136ee

"The biggest factor behind the release date change was my own selfishness as the game’s director. ... As a result, we remained firmly resolved to adjust down to the smallest nuances and ensure our writing covers even the finest points of the vast and intricate story that has spanned these past 11 years since the original FFXIV to ensure that everyone can fully enjoy their adventure in Endwalker. Unfortunately, the consequence of this was that we ended up in a situation where we cut into the time required for final quality assurance checks due to this time spent on additional improvements."

This is what y'all are defending. Man was literally nitpicking the entire development and caused this. There aren't any game-breaking bugs (that they haven't discovered yet seeing as how they had to put off their last QA process lmao), just a whole lot of nitpicking over fine details. In other words, an extremely poor management decision.

I never thought wanting to increase the quality of a product as much as possible would be something complaint about. Especially if it is the ending to a major story that has been ongoing for over a decade. This is an interesting discovery.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Yeah, sorry, but that's not how it works in general. You don't notice 2 weeks earlier that you won't be making a deadline unless

a) you procastrinated and started working on said project 2 weeks before the deadline (which we know was not the case here)
b) an unexpected major incident happened (doesn't sound like it)

What this sounds like is devs knowing they needed extra time but superiors/execs telling them to crunch it till it eventually became apparent to them that that was not gonna happen, hence the 2 weeks notice.

I work deploying cloud builds for a large telecom in the US. We FREQUENTLY have builds get delayed due to issues, most of them hardware related. FedEx delays, Vendor delays, and thus, deadlines slip, impacting customer deployment dates. Some of these dates slip the day of. Maybe this is why I'm so numb to this, as its literally my job dealing with it.

[Mika_Zahard]

aaand down goes the leve market.

RIP Coffee Biscuits and Dwarfile 2018-2021

[Wyssahtyn]

I never thought wanting to increase the quality of a product as much as possible would be something complaint about. Especially if it is the ending to a major story that has been ongoing for over a decade. This is an interesting discovery.

Chasing perfection when you have a perfectly good product already is asinine, yes. I've never rolled my eyes harder at this game's devs than when I heard on stream about how yoshi caused this delay by "looking for things that only he would notice".

[HyoMinPark]

Where are your sources? Do you work for SE? Do you know people on the inside who can update you on what's happening? Do you know what's yet to be implemented that's preventing an on-time launch?

No? Then be quiet and stop speculating because you obviously don't know what you're talking about

Actually, we do know what caused the delay. They posted about it on the Lodestone and talked about it at the start of the PLL.

I applaud the transparency. But I’m still within my right to criticize.