How many are working with this game?

[micke]

Im just curious about how many people that are working with this game full time?
Maybe only few people are working full time while other just work part time?
How big is the staff really and are they only working with this game or maybe another game?
I really like to know this.
thx
micke

[danny52844]

not enough ._.;

[Xatsh]

Yoshida said around 100 in several letters and interviews

[Rinsui]

Yoshida said around 100 in several letters and interviews

Around.
Like, 100 +/- 85.
Including the guardman and the cleaning lady.

[Greencactaur]

apparently around 100, but the teams not small the teams just slow :X.

[Seif]

Judging by the progress they're making? I'd say about 3 interns who are doing it for free on their spare-time.

Entire full release games have been made from scratch in the time SE managed to re-design a battle system (in most games it's done in few months and then locked so other aspects can be designed on top of it).

Let's see what their art team has managed to do in this time...wait ONE dungeon, are you kidding me with this?!

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

New piece of gear shouldn't by any means take more than 4 days MAXIMUM to produce by a one guy let alone an entire art team. Then why is it we still all look the same because player's can only choose between a potato sack or a coffee-pot-armor?

[Xatsh]

The armors look fairly different then me. Even the weaving in the cloth armor varies by cloth type that is used.

Compaired to most mmo, the armor in XIV probably takes around 3-4fold as long to produce.

Think that is half XIV's issues, everything is so crazily detailed it is not only putting strain on the graphics engine but taking them forever to make stuff for the game.

[Rinsui]

The armors look fairly different then me. Even the weaving in the cloth armor varies by cloth type that is used.

Compaired to most mmo, the armor in XIV probably takes around 3-4fold as long to produce.

Think that is half XIV's issues, everything is so crazily detailed it is not only putting strain on the graphics engine but taking them forever to make stuff for the game.

So. The only difference between a LV 11 cowl and a LV 41 one is... the texture's coloring. Same is true for Haubergeons. And Aktons. And... no. The implementation of armor should NOT take longer. Even the Devs themselves once praised how fast their system *should be in theory* in one of the early interviews (making of a realm #2 or #3). Lame excuse. Lke, literally "lame".

[Seif]

In XI the armor took longer to take because character proportions were different. In XIV they're the same and all the gear is just scaled up or down or wider. Again why do we all look the same. Palette swaps don't cut it.

Also a shirt with a longer sleeve does not a new gear make.

[darkstarpoet1]

Judging by the progress they're making? I'd say about 3 interns who are doing it for free on their spare-time.

Entire full release games have been made from scratch in the time SE managed to re-design a battle system (in most games it's done in few months and then locked so other aspects can be designed on top of it).

Let's see what their art team has managed to do in this time...wait ONE dungeon, are you kidding me with this?!

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

New piece of gear shouldn't by any means take more than 4 days MAXIMUM to produce by a one guy let alone an entire art team. Then why is it we still all look the same because player's can only choose between a potato sack or a coffee-pot-armor?

but but but remember we keep getting reminded daily about how they are all working on the battle updates which at this point are probably nothing more than auto attack. they are also working on a dungeon. what else can 100 people possibly work on at one time? i mean at only 50 people on auto attack and 50 on a dungeon it should take them years and years to complete.

maybe by 2020 they will have enough time to look into considering the initial discussions about possibly one day thinking of implementing it into the game a basic version of a chocobo.