Quote Originally Posted by niteypants View Post
People saying 3.5 months is a long patch time are vastly off-base. A major patch every 3 1/2 month for a game as big in content as FFXIV is sort of insane and I'm shocked that they're trying to keep that tempo. I agree with the others that quality will suffer -- in this instance, we have a direct example of quality suffering (incomplete races, no headgear, etc). This quality hit will only get worse as time goes on, if they stick to 3 1/2 month development cycles.

As a game gets bigger, the time between major patches should increase also. When you make a nonlinear change in the game, you have to check everything out and quite often change lots of minor things that were developed before.
They shouldn't have added any new races if they will impact the continued development of the game.... or hire more people.... but profits....