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

[gifthorse]

Most people already know that Events are created by barely a handful of people who aren't even development members. XI's events were handled by a single person conceptually and all they did was use existing assets to create the event. If it distracts from development time that means they're horrendously understaffed.

The only people I see complaining are extremely bitter over a video game.

I don't know if you read the Producer's letter yet, oh Venerable Jennestia Who Apparently Knows Everything, but Yoshi conceded that they won't be releasing the event for next month (children's day) because they wanted to allocate their staff to more pressing matters.

If staff need to be recalled from the events projects, then it stands to reason that they are a meaningful taskforce which can be used in other ways.

Going off Yoshi's letter, I therefore concluded that the staff members who create and code the events can in fact be put to better use.

But if you know more than Yoshi does, by all means, elaborate.

[Kaedan]

I don't know if you read the Producer's letter yet, oh Venerable Jennestia Who Apparently Knows Everything, but Yoshi conceded that they won't be releasing the event for next month (children's day) because they wanted to allocate their staff to more pressing matters.

If staff need to be recalled from the events projects, then it stands to reason that they are a meaningful taskforce which can be used in other ways.

Going off Yoshi's letter, I therefore concluded that the staff members who create and code the events can in fact be put to better use.

But if you know more than Yoshi does, by all means, elaborate.

*sigh*

Even so, this still won’t make up for all of the time lost from our original schedule.(referring to shutting down right after the quake) As a result, unfortunately, we’re going to have to forgo the event planned for a national Japanese holiday in early May. Since the April seasonal event kicks off later than intended, it will continue even after April 24th in the real world—whatever that day may be.

The reason they are forgoing the May seasonal content is because the April Seasonal content is being released later than they want it to. There is no sense in having two seasonal events if one of them is going to be significantly cut short due to the delay the power situation caused. There is no mention of reallocating staff you completely made that up to falsely support your ridiculous claim.

[gifthorse]

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The reason they are forgoing the May seasonal content is because the April Seasonal content is being released later than they want it to. There is no sense in having two seasonal events if one of them is going to be significantly cut short due to the delay the power situation caused. There is no mention of reallocating staff you completely made that up to falsely support your ridiculous claim.

Yeah and the april event is being pushed back because of time lost from development, indicating that significant development time goes into events.

[Kaedan]

Yeah and the april event is being pushed back because of time lost from development, indicating that significant development time goes into events.

No. Once again with the false information.

The April content was pushed back because the patch that it was supposed to be released with was pushed back because of a tragedy that killed over 10,000 people.

Just stop... you have no clue what you're talking about and you are doing nothing but making up BS to fit neatly into the argument you want to make.

[Jennestia]

Yeah and the april event is being pushed back because of time lost from development, indicating that significant development time goes into events.

No, it indicates they're talking about development in general. This is why the English language is such a ...."interesting" language, because you can interpret things in so many ways. Even "F2P" MMOs only has a community (GM) team that handle events and the development team does their thing.

This is why when you enter this field of work, especially on MMORPGs, they expect you to have at least moderate knowledge of internal workings.