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

[lezard21]

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 stop speculating because you obviously don't know what you're talking about

It's basic business time management. If you have good communication within your team and don't set unrealistic expectations you can know within the week of starting a project wether you will be able to meet a deadline or not unless something completely out of your control happens like a delivery truck derailing or a pandemic strucking the whole world.

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.

And I've acknowledged that on my reason b), yet at least from what was said during the live letters it didn't seem to be the case.

[IDontPetLalas]

It's basic business time management. If you have good communication within your team and don't set unrealistic expectations you can know within the week of starting a project wether you will be able to meet a deadline or not unless something completely out of your control happens like a delivery truck derailing or a pandemic strucking the whole world.



And I've acknowledged that on my reason b), yet at least from what was said during the live letters it didn't seem to be the case.

I understand your point that with good planning, a sw development team should be able to see whether a deadline is realistic, to a certain extent that's true BUT I'm going to guess that you haven't worked on any large-scale software project, in any domain, because while you can put together a project plan, and put together a risk management plan, and hold all the meetings you want with (typically) multiple teams - on a project that could last many months or even years- that original deadline often does need to get updated.

I won't even get into factors that the team didn't originally plan for, but get introduced, such as (for example) corporate asking for new features mid-way into a project .