Why does Yoshida keep using Covid-19 as an excuse for delays or setbacks?

[LegendWait]

Before I begin I would like to say he’s a genius for creating final fantasy 14 and I appreciate his work. I’m going to get a lot of hate for this but I don’t care at this point, this is kind of insane…

I have noticed with just about every single delay, setback, or inconvenience, from creative business unit 3 (Yoshida’s group) the excuse is always Covid. I understand it’s serious, but …

Server congestion
World visit queue
World transfer being down for weeks possibly months
Queue wait time kicks
And even the delay of FF16

Naoki Yoshida’s public statement for just about each of these has been “Covid complications”….when employees have the option of working from home, and I assume each employee is vaccinated and wearing a mask. You cannot just use “Covid” as an excuse for everything that goes wrong. Please own up to your mistakes and just say you were not prepared for this and didn’t plan ahead..

Why do you keep complaining on the forums, just get outta here

[Soulebreaker]

These bratty for attention posts are tiring.

[Shibi]

The Flat Earth Society has members all around the globe.

Lies, there is no globe! All around the disk!

/s

[TheMightyMollusk]

Lies, there is no globe! All around the disk!

/s

Disk? You mean the great turtle shell?

[Maxilor]

This thread and others like it are just a symptom of the issue of people being sick and tired of COVID-19 and having their lives affected and dictated by it everyday for the past two years (and most likely next 3-5 years).

But this is a video game forum, not the place to debate world issues.

[TaleraRistain]

And just as things were finally starting to look like we had turned a corner...BAM. New variant.

The one bright spot is we're starting to see more contagious but milder variants and herd immunity finally building up as those milder versions spread.

[LukaRoselia]

Because its convenient and everyone will buy it.

[Loonies]

Try to buy good pc /server hardware for a reasonable price if you even get it. So server upgrades will take time and hopefully be done before nothing works anymore in China where most of the hardware is produced.

[Shibi]

Disk? You mean the great turtle shell?

I wonder what the venn-diagram for anti-vaxxers and horse-wormers is when compared to flat earthers, and people who believe dinosaurs and man lived together.

[Dewslam]

Because the impacts of a global pandemic are still ongoing and far reaching, OP. I hope you haven't gotten covid and have been having an easy time of it, but it's had a pretty harsh impact on a lot of things, globally speaking, and not everyone has been hit by it equally or in the same ways.