Why does everything take so long?

[viion]

my XIVPads took me 2 weeks to create the foundations and almost every feature you see, but since January I've done various adjustments which is listed in news (this is like: Graphs, Gear pages, Linkshells). Though 1. I am not a professional, 2. I have university and work 3. Not being paid to do it and 4. I'm on ma own XD

I know game development takes a very long time, I've worked on a few community games (unreal/unity etc), but the speed SE is going is EXTREMELY disgusting, especially when other games can smash out a lot very fast. Fair enough they redesigning a lot but thats just a fancy word for extensive tweaking, because that is all they're doing, they not deleting the entire system and recoding from scratch, they will just be adjusting it a lot, theres no point deleting things that work fine (this is code not features).

Take TERA for example, has updates every 2 weeks, along with large patches and even a planned expansion in summer lol.

[Jennestia]

Take TERA for example, has updates every 2 weeks, along with large patches and even a planned expansion in summer lol.

Take a game that wasn't rushed out vs a game that was rushed out and needs to be redesigned..hmm..

[viion]

Take a game that wasn't rushed out vs a game that was rushed out and needs to be redesigned..hmm..

Both games have been in development around the same time.

[Elexia]

Both games have been in development around the same time.

Tera if I recall, uses Unreal Engine whereas FFXIV uses an inhouse engine they had to develop before making the actual game itself which they've mentioned was the largest portion of Rapture/XIV's development time.

[viion]

Tera if I recall, uses Unreal Engine whereas FFXIV uses an inhouse engine they had to develop before making the actual game itself which they've mentioned was the largest portion of Rapture/XIV's development time.

While true, XIV was announced in development by 2005, the Engine most likely started development before than, 03, 04? Plus the engine is not just for XIV so its been development by all staff capable of, not just XIVs team. And still lacks features of more dedicated engines. So while TERA got a headstart with prebuilt engines, XIV started development using that engine a lot earlier by a much larger work force.

I think a lot comes down to bad decisions and bad programmers. Yeh they're in a big company blah blah but they're just so bad, everyone saw this in XI and even see it in XIII. They cripple themselves in so many ways and take the wrong approach to things. You see it even now on the forums when people suggest features and their response is "it will take too long" "it cant be done" etc, when its such simple things that every other game developer seems to do fine with. All SE want to do is make the visual story XD

[Evenstar]

Both games have been in development around the same time.

Yes, but we have to forget about that. The players and Square Enix both accepted they failed during the development period. Everyone accepts that already, so it is no use to keep going over it one more time.

Overhauling a game is maybe as hard as developing a game from scratch. We can not ask for updates as fast as FFXI, Tera or WoW is having. Those are finished game, FFXIV is not. No matter how long they have been in development.