FFXIV outdated patch cycle is one of the biggest issues in terms of content cadence.

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That isn't true. They extended the dev cycle to give their staff a better work-life balance, after working extremely hard for over 10 years.

oh. back to doomposting then

Work-life balance is important. So there's a secret third option to solve the apparent labor shortage - hire more people. Does it take a year to train someone on the spaghetti code that ff14 is built on? yeah, Yoshi-P talked about it. But it gets to a point where re-investing into the cash cow is kind of important. I hope SE sees the light some day.