Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
The quote you listed further proves that they didn't have "5 years" of working on XIV. You know what else proves it? 2007-2009 FFXI update cycle and update quality. WoTG took 3 years to complete because 2007-2009 pulled the team to work on getting XIV ready for testing, XIV is released, look at the updates XI started to receive.
Hardly. WOTG took 3 years because they wanted to cajole players into sticking it out when they realized that work on XIV was falling behind and they needed to concoct something to keep the income from XI going. If it was truly a matter of manpower, then they could've just completely abandoned ACP/MKD/ASA entirely and finished the expansion properly.

I wouldn't say SE is hurting for cash but if Abyssea hadn't come along to give player subs a shot in the arm, I'm guessing subs would be under 200k by now.