Please show us something!

[Beardo04]

all work from home for the past few months like pretty much all major companies (and that they were having issues remotely accessing SE's internal networks used for content testing and development as part of that)?

i know it might be slow but remote desktop exists. Been using that and vpn since before this pandemic started. A lot of tech companies already had these system in place for wfh. Just saying..

[Vidu]

i know it might be slow but remote desktop exists. Been using that and vpn since before this pandemic started. A lot of tech companies already had these system in place for wfh. Just saying..

"A lot of tech companies" doesnt mean that SE and specifically the FFXIV-dev-team had such a system in place - from all that we know: They didnt, at least not straight away. If you read the letter from the producer from June 4, you'll see that Yoshida talks about how at that point most of their staff had finished setting up their workstations at home, implicating that not everyone had yet and that it took them quite a while (-> https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/420143)
It doesnt matter if other tech companies had remote desktop lined up the week the pandemic became a huge issue. You can obviously take a stance of "But SE should have been able to just switch everyone to home office!", the fact remains that they didnt and couldnt - at least not for the FFXIV team.

The matter of fact is also that they eventually made working from home possible - but it took them a while. Ultimatly thats the reason that 5.3 wont get more delayed, though.

[Beardo04]

"A lot of tech companies" doesnt mean that SE and specifically the FFXIV-dev-team had such a system in place - from all that we know: They didnt, at least not straight away. If you read the letter from the producer from June 4, you'll see that Yoshida talks about how at that point most of their staff had finished setting up their workstations at home, implicating that not everyone had yet and that it took them quite a while (-> https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/420143)
It doesnt matter if other tech companies had remote desktop lined up the week the pandemic became a huge issue. You can obviously take a stance of "But SE should have been able to just switch everyone to home office!", the fact remains that they didnt and couldnt - at least not for the FFXIV team.

The matter of fact is also that they eventually made working from home possible - but it took them a while. Ultimatly thats the reason that 5.3 wont get more delayed, though.

Oh no worries I did watch and read the letter. I know about the assets reloading issue where it would take multiple hours just to recompile the assets and what not locally.. That's why I mentioned remote desktop. That way you don't have to do that stuff locally but on the same pc they had at work.