Quote Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah View Post
5 years is bullshit.

The crystal tools wasn't even ready at the time, not to mention the huge pproblems SE had while developing it, causing XIII and versus to be delayed for the longest time.
Yeah, uh, XIII was delayed for the 360 port, remember?
Quote Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah View Post
XI's resources and manpower were cut considerably after the second half of 2007. Look there for the real dev time.
Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
^ This. . . .
No. No. Not "this" at all. XI's resources and manpower were cut down because they weren't doing anything. The game was sunsetting. It's not like XI people were suddenly pulled from the team to work on XIV, and even if that were the case, they've still had a sizeable amount of time to figure out these "concepts" they've been kicking around forever.

Let's assume that the entire game production has to wait until Crystal Tools is done. A faulty one, because if that were true, then XIII would have been delayed even further than it was. But whatev's. That means that rather than screwing around wasting money, they can get all this planning stuff done ahead of time so that they know what's going to go into the game, rather than having thoughtful discussions about it nearly a year after the first external playtesting has started.

At any rate, even if you cling to that silly theory of yours that the game was only recently in development because they had to get people off of XI, then you should be pissed off beyond belief that they're "diverting resources" to the production of WAKFU and that other MMO that they just announced.

One or the other! Can't have it both ways!