Aren't holiday quests a waste of development time and effort right now?

[Renshi]

It looks HORRIBLE to people on the fence about playing this game when the majority of your published updates involve holiday events and quests that bomb. This is not that hard a concept. The major criticism of this game is that it has superficial content that lacks any real meaning, where it has content at all.

And you're going to publish that you're doing another holiday event so that they see you engage in a superficial content that lacks any real meaning in a game they think has superficial content that lacks any real meaning? Come on now. Bad decision.

You do not announce a new national spring holiday when your nation is in disrepair. What holliday are we commemorating here? Our induction into the endangered species list?

That's pretty much your vision, which I understand, but I don't think everyone here have your same one.

You are pretty right, doing a festivity when a huge disaster has happened could be bad image (for some people). You have, though, to think that people in Japan DOES need some happy event in order to cheer them up, to think forward and keep up going raising their fist on the air.

Talking about the content, I can assure you that programming events take REALLY LITTLE SPAN OF LIFE to be planned and little effort. It's nothing for a company like this, as when they plan events they are going to keep up the developing of the game. Look at 1.17.

[Peregrine]

You know what happy event would cheer the JP base up? The damn battle engine re-invigorating the dead game.
Let's go. Enough of this stupid nonsense already. I see that auto-attack is CONFIRMED. So what, that took two months? I hope that's not all they have.

XIV is OUT of excuses as to how slow its development pace has become and has been since inception. Rift is right there folks. Showing you all what the real pace SHOULD be.

I understand that a complete change of direction causes dead time in development. But we're at SIX MONTHS after release, guys. Enough piddlydinking around here. Produce. I don't want to hear excuses, because I know the standard and this isn't it.

[Zkieve]

You know what happy event would cheer the JP base up? The damn battle engine re-invigorating the dead game.
Let's go. Enough of this stupid nonsense already. I see that auto-attack is CONFIRMED. So what, that took two months? I hope that's not all they have.

XIV is OUT of excuses as to how slow its development pace has become and has been since inception. Rift is right there folks. Showing you all what the real pace SHOULD be.

I understand that a complete change of direction causes dead time in development. But we're at SIX MONTHS after release, guys. Enough piddlydinking around here. Produce. I don't want to hear excuses, because I know the standard and this isn't it.

I agree, but i dont think seasonal events have anything to do with it.

[Nabiri]

I appreciate that SE is taking the time to make little holiday events for us to enjoy while they aren't even happy with their own game and have very much work to do. It was very thoughtful of them. I was surprised and thankful. ^-^ <3

[Kaedan]

I understand that a complete change of direction causes dead time in development. But we're at SIX MONTHS after release, guys. Enough piddlydinking around here. Produce. I don't want to hear excuses, because I know the standard and this isn't it.

Try 3 months there buddy. Yoshi hasn't been in control since release. Chill out.

[Renshi]

You know what happy event would cheer the JP base up? The damn battle engine re-invigorating the dead game.
Let's go. Enough of this stupid nonsense already. I see that auto-attack is CONFIRMED. So what, that took two months? I hope that's not all they have.

XIV is OUT of excuses as to how slow its development pace has become and has been since inception. Rift is right there folks. Showing you all what the real pace SHOULD be.

I understand that a complete change of direction causes dead time in development. But we're at SIX MONTHS after release, guys. Enough piddlydinking around here. Produce. I don't want to hear excuses, because I know the standard and this isn't it.

You mean 3-4 months, rite?
Shall I remember that Squeenix did Player's Polls in order to know what the international player base wants from the game? Of course they didn't implement Auto-attack. They didn't know about the need in the first place until players begun to shout on the company about that.

And I don't know how could the battle engine re-invigorating the "dead game" cheer up japanese players. Don't talk about nonsense when you talk about nonsense.

[Nephera]

Someone has probably already said this but i'm guessing the events were done before the game went live and they're just toggling them on.

[Peregrine]

Nothing has changed. No production value has changed one iota in three months. The 18 quests belong to Yoshi, and they are the worst batch of so-called gameplay I've endured in a decade of modern gaming. Horrible. They added MP regen (babysitting). They added agro icons (babysitting). What else have they done in three solid months? An entire season? Tweaked the market ward coding that now crashes once every 8.4 days instead of 2.2 days? Added streamlining that should have been intuitively coded THE FIRST TIME?

Well looks like they've been developing a spring event. Great. We're on pace for the battle engine to be ready by Christmas. Level cap maybe by 2014. First expansion...2017 or so.

What team need player polls when you spent the last 8 years making a MMORPG? You should KNOW what people want by now. Right? No?

God help FFXIV. Screw it. What's the summer event going to be? It'll be our next major content at this pace.

[Peregrine]

Someone has probably already said this but i'm guessing the events were done before the game went live and they're just toggling them on.

If that's the case the image is even worse. I already posted the obvious response to that. So what you're telling me is that they were stupid enough to develop all these pointless holiday events when their chocobos, airships, spells, animations, nonexistant quests, nonexistant NMS...and on the whole grossly premature birth of a MMORPG...took the backseat?

Here's an epiphany that actually works: Quests before holiday events.

[Nephera]

If that's the case the image is even worse. I already posted the obvious response to that. So what you're telling me is that they were stupid enough to develop all these pointless holiday events when their chocobos, airships, spells, animations, nonexistant quests, nonexistant NMS...and on the whole grossly premature birth of a MMORPG...took the backseat?

Here's an epiphany that actually works: Quests before holiday events.

We fired that dev team remember.