Quote Originally Posted by RedAffinity View Post
I work part of a small studio myself. I understand the process as well. I'm also hoping the quote statement above was just a general statement and not directed towards me as I was relatively clear in my original post I didn't believe they immediately began working on auto-attack.

Also, while minor, we can't forget the other updates and improvements the game has seen thus far. Those also took time and resources. Yoshi and his team saw it a priority over auto-attack and allocated resources and time into minor UI improvements, NM's, mini-quests etc... all draining resources from different talents within their team. I still firmly believe they should have prioritized Auto-Attack and a battle system that makes sense over some of the other content that hasn't seem to have made much of a dent in improving the game, 10 months in.
The fact that FF14 of all things lacks resources and talent, is itself a statement.

No matter what the prioritization, they just haven't been able to do quality and quantity as of yet.