So what exactly is driving the developers to keep going?

[TheDecay]

I'm pretty sure the plan for after Stormblood was always to go straight to Garlemald next, but then Yoshi-P decided on a whim to make Shadowbringers instead.

A huge travesty. While ShB was decent as a story in isolation, the effect it had on the rest of the story was palpable.

[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.

[Zaniel]

This might not be obvious to younger people to whom 3 years is an eternity but people work 30+ years in extremely demanding jobs without quitting. Sometimes it's because you love your job, sometimes it's necessity. Plus in spite of what the internet thinks being a game dev might be long hours but it ain't a "mission critical" job like being a doctor working in a major hospital or an engineer building aircraft that stay in the air or criminal defense lawyers keeping people in/out of prison. People also just work grueling physical jobs for 30 years until they simply collapse.

[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.

[Nezerius]

Random stuff

You didn't answer the question. I'm curious about the 4th of January holiday.

[Carin-Eri]

This might not be obvious to younger people to whom 3 years is an eternity but people work 30+ years in extremely demanding jobs without quitting. Sometimes it's because you love your job, sometimes it's necessity. Plus in spite of what the internet thinks being a game dev might be long hours but it ain't a "mission critical" job like being a doctor working in a major hospital or an engineer building aircraft that stay in the air or criminal defense lawyers keeping people in/out of prison. People also just work grueling physical jobs for 30 years until they simply collapse.

Sad fact is, though, that the customer/patient etc won't care about that. The majority of customers/patients don't give any consideration whatsoever to the fact that the employees of whatever company/service it is have a life outside of their work.
Though I guess it might be slightly worse in the gaming world due to high expectations and low patience from the sort of gamers whose life revolves around the game(s) they play.

[OM3GA-Z3RO]

You should try not to write fake news like that in the future.

Maybe... just maybe you should take your own advice before giving them to others.

[Lauront]

You didn't answer the question. I'm curious about the 4th of January holiday.

Never heard of Orthodox Christmas?

[Striker44]

Never heard of Orthodox Christmas?

Orthodox Christmas is always on January 7th, not the 4th.

[Lauront]

Orthodox Christmas is always on January 7th, not the 4th.

I knew some pedant would try this, so it's fitting it'd be you. You do realise there's always a lead up to holidays like Christmas (hence, "holiday season" - it's common for people to book time off around the actual day), and if you're doing savage, most people aren't going to clear it same day, right? So there needn't even have been a holiday around the 4th, but as it just so happens, there is.