So what exactly is driving the developers to keep going?

[Kaliesto]

Been curious about this since I would think after 10 years of this game that the devs would get burned out eventually, and Endwalker being like the peak of what they wanted which is the end of a story arc.

and FFXIV have this really strict set schedule of patches every year, I would think that would be pretty on hard the mind after awhile and especially in a 10 year span so far.

I don't know the devs personally of course, I just think its pretty admiring they handled 10 years of this game assuming their team members have been mostly the same unless they shifted devs around at times.

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It made me curious about something else as well, let say during Stormblood that Endwalker was actually being made aside from Shadowbringers at the time. Does his team actually plan a lot of things out way ahead of time and thus why they can meet Patch Deadlines so easily like that?

Because if so they know how to keep secrets.

[TheDecay]

Yes, of course they are burned out, why else do you think we got Endwalker.

And those strict schedules? They have broken them all the time since Shadowbringers. You can no longer rely on the "schedule" if you want to take time off for week 1 prog. No one remembers when they screwed thousands of week 1 raiders off because they delayed EW for 2 weeks?

Exactly how is this state of affairs admirable? We're no longer in Stormblood when patch cadence was actually speedy and predictable.

[Kaliesto]

Yikes, sorry I said anything.

[Ranaku]

Yikes, sorry I said anything.

Don't mind Titanmen, he is on his edgy alt again after screaming into the void how much he loves the game. Better than his pride month alt tho!

[Nezerius]

No one remembers when they screwed thousands of week 1 raiders off because they delayed EW for 2 weeks?

No one remembers it, because that never happened.

Savage didn't open up until a month after release, and the date at which it'd open was revealed when they announced the 2 week delay.

[Absurdity]

No one remembers it, because that never happened.

Savage didn't open up until a month after release, and the date at which it'd open was revealed when they announced the 2 week delay.

Yeah, Endwalker release is very unlikely to have screwed anyone over.
What might have done so is the decision to delay savage by a week in 6.2, iirc that information came rather late.

[Nezerius]

Yeah, Endwalker release is very unlikely to have screwed anyone over.
What might have done so is the decision to delay savage by a week in 6.2, iirc that information came rather late.

Info on delaying Abyssos Savage by 1 week had a similar time frame. This was revealed on the 1st of July, during the first preview of 6.2. The patch released on the 23rd of August.

[TheDecay]

No one remembers it, because that never happened.

Savage didn't open up until a month after release, and the date at which it'd open was revealed when they announced the 2 week delay.

What a blatant lie. Raiders form statics based on the understanding that the first Savage tier releases 4 weeks after expansion launch. The sudden delay in Endwalker moved Savage deep into holiday season when many people aren't available to raid. This caused many statics to quickly need to replace members and many players needed to find new statics. I'm shocked people have the memory of a goldfish.

Not to mention - the first raid tier was a disaster in terms of stability. The moment someone disconnects, you can say goodbye to your prog night.

You should try not to write fake news like that in the future, particularly seeing as you have not even cleared Asphodelos until July, so you have zero knowledge of what occurred in week 1 of the raid tier.

[Nezerius]

The sudden delay in Endwalker moved Savage deep into holiday season when many people aren't available to raid.

What kinda holidays were you celebrating on the 4th of January 2022? Y'know, the release date of the patch that unlocked the Savage version of Asphodelos.

[thevanguard]

What kinda holidays were you celebrating on the 4th of January 2022? Y'know, the release date of the patch that unlocked the Savage version of Asphodelos.

Yes I'm sure all these people are just making up their issues. You're welcome to search this in multiple recruitment discords, balance, reddit and see people talking about this issue + frantically recruiting new people. People talked about this not just on the day of the announcement btw but for multiple weeks as statics broke up because of the sudden change.



You don't even raid so why are you pretending like you know what happened?

Then again, casual players do very much like to feel that they are always correct despite not doing any of the content.