Creative Studio 3 is working on multiple projects at once.

[Voidmage]

It’s not surprising that they are working on multiple projects.
A small scale project could be a remaster of something.

Nevertheless it’s starting to feel like they are stretched too thin with all that work.
I fear (and at least for me it seems like it) that FF14 is starting to get the short end of the stick.
It’s a game that sells anyway so the good devs do the other projects and the inexperienced or „bad“ ones work on FF14 with Yoshida not knowing where to look first.
They are already extremely slow with implementation of content (hairstyles from contests anyone?) so that might go in a bad direction.


Let’s see how that will go.
They failed with the story. That was never as divisive and mixed as this time and completely unpolished.
I wonder how their status in the eyes of the players will change if other things like field content or cosmic exploration are under expectations.

Of course everything could go well but that’s going to be a hard undertaking.

Do you all just work on one thing at your jobs? It's like you guys have no concept of what working is like.

As someone who usually is in the project management position with my own projects in between no it’s not just one at a time, you are correct with that.
But multiple projects are almost always going to be slower than concentrating on one at a time.
It’s all a question of the project management and how it handles the timeline for the groups or people.
Some can be left alone mostly, some can handle multiple things and others need a nodge from time to time.
Sometimes stuff doesn‘t go right and throws your time management out of the window, etc.
Multiple projects can escalate that whole process.
So no, multiple projects CAN impact a product from quality to project time and if your team is spread too thin that CAN lead to problems.
They get quite the feedback in FF14 that lives of them implementing or strengthening things resulting from it.
It’s a living process while developing the planned content parallel.

That’s also why I have so much respect for Yoshidas work. HE IS a good producer.
I think people have every right to question how their favorite MMO is going to be handled with that news.