[Rumor] FFvsXIII team moved on FFXIV + Release date in...!

[Abriael]

Anyone with game development knowledge would know the the past decade development cost and time has nearly tripled and that it's pretty common for things to take awhile to get released as well as a company pulling departments together to push out something.

Development cost and time have nothing to do with it. The kind of professional figures required to develop a MMORPG and a single player action RPG are only partly overlapping. The idea that the whole FFvXIII team has been put to work on a MMORPG is ludicrous, because besides a few exceptions the only ones that would be able to transition seamlessly to the new game would be artists, sound designers, writers and the like.

The FFXIV team was never short on those, and it's ludicrous to argue that Square Enix just put everyone else in a limbo waiting for the project to resume.

Something of that scope would have reached the Japanese press (that has very strong contacts at SE) way before it reached a random pole on twitter.

[Psykotsu]

Are- Are you seriously taking what some random person on twitter, who claims to be with SE but has no substantial proof, as a credible source of information? It's certainly possible that it'll be released in July, but we really have no reason to believe it will.

You didn't bother reading what I typed then. Again, I did NOT say what the source provided was factual information. The facts that I were talking about were that SE has not given us a release date for a reason, we don't have dates for how long alpha will last or when phases end or begin, and no date on the beta.

I haven't said that the source stated factual information. This is what I meant by "You won't see what you don't wanna see".

[Firon]

You didn't bother reading what I typed then. Again, I did NOT say what the source provided was factual information. The facts that I were talking about were that SE has not given us a release date for a reason, we don't have dates for how long alpha will last or when phases end or begin, and no date on the beta.

I haven't said that the source stated factual information. This is what I meant by "You won't see what you don't wanna see".

Alpha is 4 phases will last 4 weeks... beta starts after alpha those are not solid dates, but they are good time frames.

[Yoruichi4478]

They're no longer continuing development on 1.0 so they could end it whenever they please, the sooner the better as it's just bleeding money. If you read what it even says, they expected ARR sooner, but as many people and even media stated before, SE is being a bit too careful.

Can you blame them though? Look how well 1.0's release went.

[Elexia]

No one is disagreeing with you if delays happen. However, why you intend to further believe this false rumor is true from an uncredible source is beyond me.

I agree with the fact we never got a release date to begin with and we already know SE has a habit of delaying things. So to flatout deny the game being release later than people hoped is just being in denial. SE has went on record to state they'll release it when they feel it's ready, people are holding onto the Jan-March time frame dearly even though SE has never stated that was the launch time frame.

What if SE felt the game wouldn't be ready until the 3 year anniversary? I bet people will happily accept that date simply because SE stated it, despite the fact September =/= March.

2) A lot of stuff they are holding back for after the game releases/ too many things might not make it @ release.

The game could release in 2014 and there's still stuff that won't make it in at release. Every MMO that releases stagger content updates and content at launch for a reason, it's not because they didn't make any/enough content, it's because it's being staggered to make patches more relevant beyond bug fixes.

[Psykotsu]

Alpha is 4 phases will last 4 weeks... beta starts after alpha those are not solid dates, but they are good time frames.

Can you show me where that was said? I haven't seen that information officially stated anywhere.

[Yoruichi4478]

2.0 is likely to loosely follow the same schedule as 1.0 alpha/beta/release.

We know open beta starts in Jan 2013, so how long was it from the start of beta until release for 1.0? That's going to give you a rough estimate. I don't think it was 6 months, it was 1 month, maybe 2?

I agree maybe July for PS3 version.

Think it was a month between open beta and release. It's been 2 years so I might not remember it quite accurately anymore.

[Velhart]

I agree with the fact we never got a release date to begin with and we already know SE has a habit of delaying things. So to flatout deny the game being release later than people hoped is just being in denial. SE has went on record to state they'll release it when they feel it's ready, people are holding onto the Jan-March time frame dearly even though SE has never stated that was the launch time frame.

What if SE felt the game wouldn't be ready until the 3 year anniversary? I bet people will happily accept that date simply because SE stated it, despite the fact September =/= March.




The game could release in 2014 and there's still stuff that won't make it in at release. Every MMO that releases stagger content updates and content at launch for a reason, it's not because they didn't make any/enough content, it's because it's being staggered to make patches more relevant beyond bug fixes.

I don't think you read into what I said, I will repeat it one more time. In this topic, which is to clarify if some random rumor from an uncreditable source is valid. It clearly isn't, and you defend it saying it is when there is so many holes in the statement. Almost no one agrees with you that this is valid.

On the topic of delays. I don't know where your arguments come up here. I don't know if a delay will happen as much as you do, but the only thing that can be said about it is that "It is possible".

[Psykotsu]

I agree with the fact we never got a release date to begin with and we already know SE has a habit of delaying things. So to flatout deny the game being release later than people hoped is just being in denial. SE has went on record to state they'll release it when they feel it's ready, people are holding onto the Jan-March time frame dearly even though SE has never stated that was the launch time frame.

These are the facts here.

[viion]

all links on first post broke, there any others?