Updates: FFXI and FFXIV, a comparison

[Betelgeuzah]

But even still, the people who work on the Battle system should not be the same people who do the interface or create 3D Models. If you've got people multi-tasking as Jack-of-all-trades then no wonder this game is in such a bad state because joat employees suck.

Uhh...

There are separate people working on 3D models and people working on interface. No one is multitasking.

Do you not understand that all of these people are preparing the battle patch? Creating models and assets, designing AA GUI, developing the materia interface. Regardless of if there is a clear connection or not, these features can not be released before the feature it supports is ready.

And dear God, we have gotten UI improvements, new models and effect improvements during the last few months. What the hell is even your point?

Not only did they add Stamina they changed how attack works, changed action bar changed skill menus and during Alpha and Beta did several changes to how stat works regarding algorithms. I'd say about 6-7 updates worth of stat tweaking.

and "all" of it resulted in shit that needs to be changed yet again. Truly remarkable.

ffxi battle changed just as much in less time and they had many other changes going on at the same time

"Just as much"? XIV team hasn't even implemented the plethora of changes being prepared. XI team has nothing going on in parallel that would slow them down. Obviously they will get ahead until the XIV team is done.