Can someone from devopment explain why Eureka was delayed for so long?

[Vstarstruck]

My guess is that the system-level changes they made (elemental affinity, dynamic affinity changing, chaining changes, new XP tables and splitting calculations, leveling system changes incl. level down, etc.) were a lot more complicated to get working in FFXIV's codebase than people would believe. I highly doubt it's like they had an entire team of dozens of developers working on nothing but this nonstop for years, but probably the amount of staff they have who can make those kinds of system level changes to the server code are very few, and it probably had all sorts of bugs and complications with many iterations just to get to this point.

(This is also why I'm guessing that making the types of changes people are requesting now (adding things on top to make it more interesting) will probably be much smaller in comparison, having built this foundation.)

Of course none of this changes the "that's it?" feeling you're alluding to at all, and that's still a pretty major misfire. But I suspect this will be one of those cases where the work involved will mean a lot more to the people inside the team (who know what was really involved) than to anyone on the outside (who, rightfully, only judge the final result).

Another thing to consider is that the housing wards and housing changes we got recently were not intended to be released at that point. Those were released in response to the enormous uproar over the Shirogane launch.

It's possible this contributed to Eureka being delayed.

HOW? there is NOTHING in Eureka that takes work! if they had problems with putting the extra level system in FFXIV from a programing level, then they could of simplified it to something like Palace of the dead. There is no excuse for this long wait for no content, none. All Eureka is.. is a breaddead grind for outdated gear.... I am not interested in glams that take this long.

I would rather have fixes to the glam system then this broken place called diadem 3.0