Development Officially Delayed due to COVID-19

[Gula]

Glad to see everyone's support and understanding. Such unity on the forums is as rare as an alignment of stars. That's as good of a silver lining as any in my book. As is the fact the servers will remain online. SE can't very well charge subscribers for a service they cannot provide, so this is really good news for everyone that we can still play the game we love so much. Hopefully this let's us all know to not take privileges like that for granted.

On a lighter note: could you imagine if SE was able to maintain patch schedules despite things like national sports and global economical shutdowns?! The task forces of all the allied nations would have to do whatever the hell SE would be in that situation. xD

Thank you Yoshida. For everything you do.

Honestly it feels like everyone is acting out your signature to keep the gaming going strong.

(As of the date of this post lest it be changed)

[NanaWiloh]

Too FF14 staff thank you for your work during these times look at yourselves. We will be here waiting when you are able to fully return.

[Barraind]

On a lighter note: could you imagine if SE was able to maintain patch schedules

You mean like US developers and publishers are having to do cause they're considered non-essential in California, Washington and Texas? Some of those have already been working entirely remote for a month now.

Guess Japan doesnt do the working remote thing?

[Lersayil]

You mean like US developers and publishers are having to do cause they're considered non-essential in California and Texas?

Guess Japan doesnt do the working remote thing?

Are they though? We've had numerable game delay announcements the last few weeks. And even if so, working from home slows things down, even if the required infrastructure was already in place.

[Tsumdere]

You mean like US developers and publishers are having to do cause they're considered non-essential in California, Washington and Texas? Some of those have already been working entirely remote for a month now.

Guess Japan doesnt do the working remote thing?

Maintaining patch schedules now is living hell - I would know since I work for a company that isn't delaying games/patches despite everyone working from home. It's absolutely awful and they are pushing forward at the expense of the physical and MENTAL health of their employees. Several people have already quit from my company because of how horrible and taxing it is to keep up the corporate schedule while all of this is going down.

Good on SE for taking the health of their employees into consideration.

[Paladinleeds]

Good on SE for taking the health of their employees into consideration.

Exactly this. I'd rather have delays than the staff literally riding roughshod with horrible physical/mental health. A delay to the game just means I have to wait until a later date to enjoy the content, but staff having horrible physical/mental health from being pushed too far in these times means they could end up hospitalised, or potentially even dead from the stress causing their immune system to fail on them. yeah, I'll take the delay over hospitalised staff thank you very much.

[Nedkel]

Maintaining patch schedules now is living hell - I would know since I work for a company that isn't delaying games/patches despite everyone working from home. It's absolutely awful and they are pushing forward at the expense of the physical and MENTAL health of their employees. Several people have already quit from my company because of how horrible and taxing it is to keep up the corporate schedule while all of this is going down.
Good on SE for taking the health of their employees into consideration.

Working remotely from comfy home is living hell, then what should tell those working in transport/food/health industry?

IT always full of themselves, as usual.

[Lersayil]

Working remotely from comfy home is living hell, then what should tell those working in transport/food/health industry?

IT always full of themselves, as usual.

Generalization is fun!

Anyways, while he clearly exaggerated, it isn't exactly all comfy rainbows and rose smelling farts. Working from that comfy non-work environment, under the same load, with the technical and practical issues it introduces to the work process, it usually means extra hours, or lowered output.

Wouldn't compare the difficulty to some of the front line jobs in this situation (for multiple reasons), but for the sake of fairness, lets not belittle it either.

[Nedkel]

Generalization is fun!

Anyways, while he clearly exaggerated, it isn't exactly all comfy rainbows and rose smelling farts. Working from that comfy non-work environment, under the same load, with the technical and practical issues it introduces to the work process, it usually means extra hours, or lowered output.

Wouldn't compare the difficulty to some of the front line jobs in this situation (for multiple reasons), but for the sake of fairness, lets not belittle it either.

Sorry but no.
IT remote jobs does not even stand close to what regular keyworkers has to come by with during the lockdown. A lot of people are on sick notes or staying at home, and those forced to do those jobs have to work extra hard due to the staff shortage and higher demand.
If someone is working in IT and have problem to set up their job remotely then just oof.