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

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

You’re still missing the point.

Constructive criticism is fair. Personal attacks against the developers are not. I fail to see where I ever said otherwise, though.

I don’t think some of the criticism expressed here is uncalled for. Especially considering the real reasons for the delays. They weren’t really things out of their control: hardware shipment delays, game-crashing bugs. It was literally lore nitpicking and fine-tuning that delayed QA testing the showed further server stability—which was already known. And I think asking for maybe even a slightly faster announcement to allow those that took time off for this isn’t that far off of a request. But I’ve already addressed that previously in this thread, and won’t repeat it here. Feel free to go back and read, or don’t.

Your post was unnecessary because it came off as shaming people for spending their time off how they pleased. If you don’t think it’s a “good enough” reason, then fine. You’re more than welcome to say that. But you don’t really need to smack someone that is already disappointed with such a condescending statement.

Whats Constructive about getting mad at the company for a 2 week delay and saying stuff like the company is unreliable or "this is the Final Straw?"
Whats constructive about getting mad that you took time off for a videogame?
All this is, is just venting, it doesn't help the company, so its not accurate at all to call it "Constructive" Criticism

[HyoMinPark]

Whats Constructive about getting mad at the company for a 2 week delay and saying stuff like the company is unreliable or "this is the Final Straw?"
Whats constructive about getting mad that you took time off for a videogame?
All this is, is just venting, it doesn't help the company, so its not accurate at all to call it "Constructive" Criticism

If they choose to take the reasonable posts and apply them to future projects/patches/whatever that might be delayed, then yes. It is constructive. I certainly hope that they will take the better posts in this thread and consider them for the future should something like this ever happen again: ideally, don’t wait two weeks before a majorly hyped release to say that it has to be delayed. My first post in this thread was literally saying that I do not hold any grudges against Yoshida—but I have criticisms surrounding the reasons for the delay, as well as the very untimely announcement that also kind of dampened the mood of the PLL for a lot of watchers. And he acknowledged all of this—so I will give my props to him for that. Doesn’t excuse what I had to say, though. Or any of the other posters in this thread that had calm and valid complaints.

Sure, a lot of it is venting. Which people can do. But there are still points that can be considered constructive criticism in here if you read the thread. And SE can just toss out the exaggerated ones.