Quote Originally Posted by Shadray View Post
I'm not too sure how vacations are an excuse. The company I work for ensures that vacations don't interfere with business productivity.

We put in a request for vacation time and if there are too many others off at the same time it gets rejected.

I would have thought this was common practice for any business.
It depends entirely on how large the team is. In a small office, even one person going on vacation can be enough to make overall productivity take a hit, and there's no way around it because you can't deny people vacations. My current team is three people-- if one of us goes on vacation, we have to pull in someone from another branch to cover for them. Even so, if the person on vacation is my boss, there are going to be some things that simply can't be done until he gets back because none of the rest of us have the authority to sign off on them. I'd imagine it's probably the same way with the FFXIV dev team.