The goalpost has shifted from 4 months to 4.5 months

[MintnHoney]

Once you go fur, nothing else makes you purr.

Ain't that the goddamn truth, I'll tell you what..

[Silver-Strider]

Once you go fur, nothing else makes you purr.

I want to say something but I have noticed an increase in bitterness ever since going Hroth so maybe there's some truth to it. Although can you really blame us when a bad hair day involves cutting your ears off

[Deveryn]

I'm pretty sure this extra two weeks was called back during the EW launch LLs (summer and winter breaks)

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Once you go fur, nothing else makes you purr.

......I like this

[Kolsykol]

Yoshi-P said that he wants to give the team more free time.
They're human beings not robots, Japan also has a really crazy work culture so I think this is a good thing.
A more relaxed and healthier dev team I think is going to make better content.

1-2 extra weeks is nothing.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

1-2 extra weeks is nothing.

SHHHH
Dont say that, or you'll be called a White Knight and a Shill.

[Oizen]

It's funny how they said they will go back to normal schedule once COVID is over a few years ago.

Then in the live letter they announce that the patch cycle will be 4 months instead of 3.5.

And now it's 4.5 months after 6.1

I wonder how the white knights will defend this.

I would expect this trend to continue, people will defend it until it gets painfully obvious.

[Moonlite]

SHHHH
Dont say that, or you'll be called a White Knight and a Shill.

Or you know instead they could say SE can hire more people. Also unless SE gets lucky some years we will only see two patches. Strange WoW was vilified for having two patches in a year. But this community "relaxed and healthier dev team" Hell we won't know till 17 comes out, but these changes could have nothing to do with health and more siphoned talent or stretching people over two games. You know a company doesn't get to be known as the EA of japan by accident.

[MintnHoney]

Or you know instead they could say SE can hire more people. Also unless SE gets lucky some years we will only see two patches. Strange WoW was vilified for having two patches in a year. But this community "relaxed and healthier dev team" Hell we won't know till 17 comes out, but these changes could have nothing to do with health and more siphoned talent or stretching people over two games. You know a company doesn't get to be known as the EA of japan by accident.

SHHHH
Don't say that, or the White Knights will shit their tighty whities and call you a doomsaying Negative Nancy while thanking their god, Yoshi-P, for not reading these forums (but also, thereby, leaves them to suffer).

[Striker44]

Or you know instead they could say SE can hire more people. Also unless SE gets lucky some years we will only see two patches. Strange WoW was vilified for having two patches in a year. But this community "relaxed and healthier dev team" Hell we won't know till 17 comes out, but these changes could have nothing to do with health and more siphoned talent or stretching people over two games. You know a company doesn't get to be known as the EA of japan by accident.

That's mainly because of the clientele. WoW went the way of eSports, and the eSports crowd is overwhelmingly toxic. FFXIV caters to the more human and humane crowd (well, except perhaps for these forums, which in general are havens of toxic extremism). Hence we give the dev team a pass for being human while enjoying the game they've developed for us