Quote Originally Posted by Divinemights View Post
Care to share the reference?
Sorry it took a bit for me to find it. It wasn't famitsu, but here's the interview.

https://www.gamer.ne.jp/news/202206030001/

PvPの企画担当者は業務としてPvPだけをやっているわけではなく、色々なバトルコンテンツを作ったりジョブを作ったりもしているので、一年を通して企画だけを行っていたわけではありませんが、それでもかなりの時間をかけています。
Essentially it says it took them a year to plan it, but the team did not work on pvp the entire time as they also worked on other battle content and job designs. The interview also talked about ideas such as having a battle royal style mode with blue mages, but I imagine because they don't have a dedicated pvp dev group that ideas like that get pushed to the side due to pvp just never being popular in FFXIV.

I believe happy did a video on the article if you want a translation of the whole interview.