Development Officially Delayed due to COVID-19

[Paladinleeds]

I'm not sure if you're serious or not, but just because you - probably a young and rather healthy person (my asumptions may be wrong, in which case I apologise) - only had mild symptoms doesnt mean this virus isnt to be taken seriously.
People with pre-existing conditions and/or of old age might have a very, very different experience.

You got lucky. Grats.
Others werent so lucky. As of right now 2.673 people in germany were unlucky enough to die because of the virus - and afaik germany only counst the deaths directly linked to the virus, not those were someone with a tone of pre-existing conditions that probably would have killed them in the next few weeks AND caugth the virus on top died.
Globally over 100.000 people died because of Covid-19 - not everyone only has mild symptoms.
You got lucky.

To top it all off, I know how serious it can be. I've personally had to deal with a death within my family due to the coronavirus (I received the phone call off my biological father on Thursday). I'm only going out if I need to buy essentials, or pick up medicine. Even though our lockdown allows for a couple of other reasons (e.g. exercise), I'm refusing to do that. Heck, our household has also implemented a policy of "No non-essential items to be delivered", which means the tech upgrades I'm after are probably about 18 months away. But if me waiting on my tech upgrades means lives are spared, it's a small price to pay. With regards to the family loss, nobody is allowed to go to the funeral either. We can't go to say our goodbyes.

So please everybody, I beg of you, take this seriously. I get it, it sucks, being stuck in the house isn't fun, but at the end of the day, we have to do this to protect our countries. Consider it a social vaccine if you will. With things like Discord, Skype, etc, allowing for video calls, you can still see each other's faces and talk to each other, though obviously the physical contact is gone. My best friend's partner has also had to temporarily move away because she's high risk and he's an essential worker. I'm sure you can imagine the toll that's taking on her because of this. She's not allowed out of her house for ANY reason (not even to get essentials, they have to be delivered to her door, and then the delivery person to step away from the house so she can pick them up) for 12 weeks, and she's younger than me (and I'm barely considered middle age, more likely young age still). Not to mention, we've had a few die here that were young (like, teenager age) with no underlying medical complications, because of coronavirus. Not to mention, our NHS is already buckling under the pressure of the coronavirus.

[Raiya]

Not sure what scare this is all about I got it lasted 4 days and was over it. When I got West Nile virus in the past that was way worse.

2 Words: Collateral Damage. In 80% of people it's like a stronger flu, but in the remaining 20% it can hospitalise people to the point of needing a ventilator and of those who end up in intensive care suvival is about 50%. The real danger from all this is that if so many people get sick at once it overwhelms the health system leading to people who are stricken down with other health issues not geting fast enough treatment and dying from preventable complications. That's the main issue. Covid is basically Sars 2: Electric Boogalo World Tour, the last one didnt make it out of Asia but this one made it. Only have to look at the amount of older people being wiped out to see the damage not to mention those who have other complications or comprimised systems being struck down as well.

The whole situation sucks but without what's happening now we would be looking at far worse damage and fatalities, remember the spanish pandemic ended up wiping out 100m people a century ago, least were now in an age where tech lets a good chunk of people work at home and not need to put themselves at too much risk.

[Schan]

I hope they stay safe. I don't mind waiting. In fact it even works better for me, with work going insane.

I'm not looking forward for more people like hynaku to start coming out of the woods saying it wasn't that bad because "they got it" and they were fine. I can see it coming a mile away. In fact it has already begun.

[Sarynth]

Stay healthy and safe Yoshi P and team =^_~=

[Ryaz]

Stay safe, team! Better to protect your health.

Gives me a chance to get caught up on my backlog of games.

[lol123]

being healthy and safe is way more important than a game i dont mind the wait. I couldn't see anyone being against this.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

I hope the devs take care of themselves. As much as I enjoy playing FFXIV and look forward to each new patch, people's lives mean much more than my personal entertainment. Stay safe, stay healthy. When things get back to some semblance of normalcy, then we can worry about playing catch up.

[Krotoan]

Not sure what scare this is all about I got it lasted 4 days and was over it. When I got West Nile virus in the past that was way worse.

I totally survived a car crash head on collision with a drunk driver with 0 ill effects. All these people talking about how deadly drunk drivers are are totally exaggerating.


... see how that sounds?


Just because it didn't happen to you personally does not lessen how serious the effects can be.