November? really?

[Moqi]

Is this real? i hope to god your just messing around and your not really saying this :P

Why is it so unreasonable to suggest they hire someone else to do their work while they are on vacation? If I go to a restaurant and order a meal but the waiter's turn ends before it's ready, they don't make me wait until he comes back the next day... they get another waiter to cover.

I only give money to friends and charity without expecting anything in return. SE isn't either.

[Obysuca]

Why is it so unreasonable to suggest they hire someone else to do their work while they are on vacation? If I go to a restaurant and order a meal but the waiter's turn ends before it's ready, they don't make me wait until he comes back the next day... they get another waiter to cover.

^ This. It's understandable if they need a break, but I'm baffled they don't seem to have extra employees to bring in for when others are out. In 15 years of mmos, I don't think I've ever seen one where they come out and say "welp, content is being pushed back another 2 months because everyone's taking a vacation."

This could also be further proof that XIV isn't doing as well as some people might think, so they're cutting costs. Either that, or they're just trying to ride the money wave from people who can't see problems with the game, while putting the minimum they can into the game (2 dungeons, 4 bosses, more focus on vanity content etc rather than real mmo content)

[SakuraMidori]

Why is it so unreasonable to suggest they hire someone else to do their work while they are on vacation? If I go to a restaurant and order a meal but the waiter's turn ends before it's ready, they don't make me wait until he comes back the next day... they get another waiter to cover.

I only give money to friends and charity without expecting anything in return. SE isn't either.

Well for one there is still a lot to do in the game 2 this is not anything like a restaurant order {unless your order the whole place} sure you pay a sub and you can stop paying. SE is not saying oh heyy keep paying that ones up to you 100% this is the first big rest this games had and i don't think the worlds going to end over it :P How many other mmorpgs bring stuff out as fast as ff? not counting the free to play

[vp_cmc]

I'm not sure why vacations affect the company workflow as a whole, but I'm actually glad, that next patch is delayed, so I have a bit more time to clear savage before it becomes a trash

[Warlyx]

personally i have been playing 2.0 w/o stoping for 2 reasons , i enjoy it , and because it puts content every so often...i have been telling people the same , come play FFXIV !!! , is fun and put lots of content every 3 months!!!.

Atm i still having fun , but 2nd reason isnt there anymore , the moment i get bored now is the moment i ask myself , unsub? , after all this months now a loyal costumer maybe leaves until the next content patch, or maybe im enjoying other game and dont bother coming back , thats a way to lose players overtime ...

[Daralii]

I'm not sure why vacations affect the company workflow as a whole, but I'm actually glad, that next patch is delayed, so I have a bit more time to clear savage before it becomes a trash

14 has a very small team relative to how big it is.

[Linkan]

My thoughts exactly. I was surprised it didnt have enough people to allow them to take turns in vacation.

Never heard of anything like that become.

[Spellbinder]

My thoughts exactly. I was surprised it didnt have enough people to allow them to take turns in vacation.

Never heard of anything like that become.

Well, let's consider what he said during the live letter.

「ちょっとだけお休みを開発チームいただきました。あとワークフロー壊れてしまってるところとかを調整したので、ちょっといつものパッチよりは長くかかってるんですけど、１１月上旬リリースする予定です。」
「すみません、１０月には間に合わないですね。」

So, the dev team had a short break. He didn't say how long it was, we just know they had a short break.
They also had to fix problems with the work flow. What those problems are and how they affected the patch, we don't know.
The intended release schedule was October.

From the release of Heavensward, they've rolled out patches like so.

6/23 - 3.0 Heavensward Release
7/07 - 3.01 Alexander Normal and other additions
7/21 - 3.05 Alexander Savage, Frontline Seize, and other additions

I'm not going to count 3.07 as that was mostly job adjustments. The entirety of Heavensward was released in increments, with everything available on July 21.

Counting three months from that point puts us in October, the deadline he said they couldn't make.

For argument's sake, let's say the developers are incompetent jerks and they scheduled the release for October 26, a full three months from July 21, pushed to the nearest Tuesday because they always release on a Tuesday.

Then let's say the dev team at some point during this patch cycle took their breaks. Half took a week off, the other half took a week off and rotated.

Then they had to fix the problems with their work flow, which we don't know how it affected their schedule. Let's also include that this week just happens to be Silver Week, so unless they're working on national holidays, they are out of the office until Thursday, which costs them more time. Where does that put us?

[Dyvid]

The staff want to rest and all i see is OMG ill un sub or 3.0 has nothing to do and it's crap :P reading some of this is sad and once again makes the English speaking community look bad

And yet the Japanese forums have a similar thread on their boards, isn't that weird.....

[Jynx]

We are paying for a product.

Personally I have little I'm interested in doing in game at the moment.

I'd be crafting and gathering right now but red script killed my interests just because of the weekly cap and needing to schedule my days around limited time mode spawns.

I won't complain like others have...but as paying consumers they have every right to do so.

The developers don't care if my work schedule interrupts my ability to cap on their weekly lockouts.

The developers don't care to make the game content just for the passion of the game. They religiously cut content and swing it unto the cash shop for profits.

Why are we to treat them any different? They are a business looking to make money and they are back peddling on their release schedules. It's as simple as that, I would love to have a different opinion but the current development team has done little to show me they are making this game with passion instead of with dollar signs in their eyes.