November? really?

[_Pigzig]

remember remember

[LongsunZhao]

Why not hire more staff...

[Spellbinder]

Bottom line: If we are to believe that vacations are the reason for the delay...

The team taking a break wasn't the only reason for the delay, but no one seems to really care what he said during the PLL, although it was a very brief explanation.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Why not hire more staff...

Is Square willing to foot the bill for it?

[LongsunZhao]

They seem happy taking our money for Heavensward which we also paid a fee for... So there going to have to coincider something...

I'm not trying to be horrible. But when a company can't manage having a Holiday without this kind of disruption. I start getting worried...

[Goodberry]

*shakes his head at people who say 3.0 didn't offer much*

Three new jobs, increase level cap with new skills included (and crafts to cover the increased level cap), unsynced party (ie solo dungeoning), loads of new dungeons, new primals, flying, new zones, new city, new idle town, new gear, new hunts, new quests, new gathering systems, FC crafting, airships... am I missing more? Probably.

If anything, we're very spoiled with how much we get in the patches (how many games would give you something like Gold Saucer in a patch?), some of them are near-expansion-quality in themselves. I have no issues with lack of content and I play a lot. I was told by someone the other day about how in WoW you're lucky to get a patch of FFXIV quality ever. Everything is expac except bug fixes and balancing, so I'm told.

If I played any other game as much as I play FFXIV, I'd probably be bored.

Thanks for posting this!

[Iromi]

The team taking a break wasn't the only reason for the delay, but no one seems to really care what he said during the PLL, although it was a very brief explanation.

All the more reason they should have a translator there, or at least post on the official forums the live translation like usual..but they did neither this time. Reap what they sow I guess.

[Wildsprite]

The team taking a break wasn't the only reason for the delay, but no one seems to really care what he said during the PLL, although it was a very brief explanation.

are you going to tell us what he said? bringing it up like that without explaining it is not nice. I didn't watch, I only got info after the fact and that wasn't in it.

[Spellbinder]

are you going to tell us what he said? bringing it up like that without explaining it is not nice. I didn't watch, I only got info after the fact and that wasn't in it.

I posted it four pages ago, and it was ignored.

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?

I agree that they should plan accordingly for things like this. I can only hope that whatever problems they had with work flow have been sorted out. And to reiterate from other posts in this thread and others, he did say that the work flow of three months between patches will resume after the upcoming 3.1 patch.

[Deathscythe343]

remember remember

The 5th of November. The Gunpowder Treason and plot; I see of no reason why Gunpowder Treason. Should ever be forgot.