There has not been a single major patch without a critical issue since Endwalker.

[Kaurhz]

First of all the systems they are developing as of late aren’t exactly incredibly simplistic, especially depending on data structures. Implementation and testing for a housing lottery and DC visit are infinitely more complex than, say, implementing GATEs at the Gold Saucer or making adjustments to raids.

This is just what happens when you get a little more ambitious than usual with the projects they undertake. Secondly, to my understanding they only identified the issues, not resolved them.

[kaynide]

First of all the systems they are developing as of late aren’t exactly incredibly simplistic, especially depending on data structures. Implementation and testing for a housing lottery and DC visit are infinitely more complex than, say, implementing GATEs at the Gold Saucer or making adjustments to raids.

This is just what happens when you get a little more ambitious than usual with the projects they undertake. Secondly, to my understanding they only identified the issues, not resolved them.

Just to add, to OP: the updates that might feel like no big deal (adding trusts to older dungeons, redesigning entire fights from older dungeons), is a huge pull on resources, and quite impressive given how they haven’t seemed to work out a universal AI for all dungeons but rather need to custom tweak each one per each dungeon. If the game truly were in lazy-mode, they would not have bothered with this.

[DixieBellOCE]

Just to add, to OP: the updates that might feel like no big deal (adding trusts to older dungeons, redesigning entire fights from older dungeons), is a huge pull on resources, and quite impressive given how they haven’t seemed to work out a universal AI for all dungeons but rather need to custom tweak each one per each dungeon. If the game truly were in lazy-mode, they would not have bothered with this.

Ill add into this and offer another view.

They release more content per patch than most MMO's release in an entire expansion.
its a big drain on a development team that had half its workforce shipped off to FF16 for a fair chuck of time.

[Jason_Ashford]

Ill add into this and offer another view.

They release more content per patch than most MMO's release in an entire expansion.
its a big drain on a development team that had half its workforce shipped off to FF16 for a fair chuck of time.

allow me to offer another view as well.

every time something even slightly goes wrong these threads pop up screaming about how this is it, *this* is the update that proves that the devs don't care anymore and ff14 is going to start sucking as bad as WoW because obviously they are going to stop communicating, put the cash shop in game, the story is going to shite, etc.

i don't know if they are just suffering from PTSD after having dealt with Blizzard for so long, but it is getting extremely annoying when their kneejerk reaction is to cry that the game is ending because it's *so* obvious that the devs dont care anymore. smh.