Have a nice vacation Devs :)

[Jynx]

Not a soul is telling the developers to never take a break or have a vacation, if that's what they get from these threads they are as blind as some white-knights are acting who think the team can do no wrong.

They will perhaps not give the entire team (Or at least word it as such) and delay content because of their poor planning. Hopefully if anything the complains will force upper managments hands and give them some well deserved staffing solutions instead of running the game on a skeleton crew. For all you know the devs are cheering the dissenters on because they themselves are also tired of having such a small team for a big task.

[Dyvid]

Not a soul is telling the developers to never take a break or have a vacation, if that's what they get from these threads they are as blind as some white-knights are acting who think the team can do no wrong.

They will perhaps not give the entire team (Or at least word it as such) and delay content because of their poor planning. Hopefully if anything the complains will force upper managments hands and give them some well deserved staffing solutions instead of running the game on a skeleton crew. For all you know the devs are cheering the dissenters on because they themselves are also tired of having such a small team for a big task.

Pretty much this. I'm glad they took a break and hoped they played volleyball in Hawaii but if work and development on the game suffers then SE has problems. No business should come to a screeching halt because employees take a week or two off. SE needs to ramp up the development team of FFXIV to go along with the incredible success the game has done.

the theme when you ride the magitek

Actually this came about because of community complaints two years ago. We don't complain because of being haters, we complain because we want positive changers that works for everyone.

[Vickii]

I know it's kinda mmo-community thing to always talk bad about everything and the dev team etc, but I really love the clear heart that goes into this game. It's probably my favourite thing about it to be honest, the hildibrand quests, the theme when you ride the magitek and the rising event just show how much they love making it. I hope they have a good break

[Sakuraluna]

I'm going to echo the sentiment in the OP... In the live letters and similar media they've always looked like they could use a vacation, they've met some important deadlines and worked hard for it, they deserve some time off. I wouldn't start worrying about the quality and consistency of the updates going downhill until it starts to become a trend. Which we haven't even had our first big update yet, and even if it's a bit delayed it still sounds like it'll be packed with new content.

[Altera]

[QUOTE=SakuralunaI'm going to echo the sentiment in the OP. I wouldn't start worrying about the quality and consistency of the updates going downhill until it starts to become a trend. Which we haven't even had our first big update yet, and even if it's a bit delayed it still sounds like it'll be packed with new content.[/QUOTE]

Until they start acting like WoW's devs with 6-14months content gaps, and Selfies/Twitter/QOL improvements/class balancing being considered a Major Patch, I do not think we have to worry too much about that.
I honestly believe personally that this timeout is a onetime thing given that they probably have worked tirelessly for over 3 years, as it was in mid 2011 they decided to scrap the old and remake XIV into ARR and I havent heard them had vacations during that time.
They have flown all over the world promoting the game, not wasting time and money, as some people say, as well as delivered on schedule for 3 years now with not much delays at all.

[Spellbinder]

Welp, didn't take long for this thread to go sour. Nice try though OP.

[Goodberry]

Dear devs, I hope your vacation was as pleasant as you deserved, i.e. a lot.
I couldn't care less if it means we won't have a patch in the usual 3-months schedule. You have Old Goodberry's word that nothing bad will happen to Eorzea in the meanwhile.
I am having a ton of fun in the game. Thanks for that!

[Zeonx]

We going to get the halloween Event still right?

[SakuraMidori]

We going to get the halloween Event still right?

well in the rising event we saw stuff like this all over seemed like a hint hint wink wink saying look whats next so im sure we will

[Kemas]

PSA: acting as a white knight on a paid developers behalf yields no special treatment whatsoever.lol