Why does everything take so long?

[Visch]

consequences will never be the same.

Ya dun goof'd.

[Kam]

Still dont get why everyone seems to think this is a new dev team.

Its a slightly restructured one with a new guy at the top. Stop acting like they are "new" :/

[Akumu]

Still dont get why everyone seems to think this is a new dev team.

Its a slightly restructured one with a new guy at the top. Stop acting like they are "new" :/

The team is not just "slightly" restructured since they didn't just add Yoshi and a few nobodies. The team was changed significantly considering they added some trusted/key people into the lead roles.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...d5253e4362e17f

Dividing them into old/new team allows people to know either Tanaka or Yoshi was under control. However, In sports(or anything with a "team") if you get rid of the "core" of your team for a fresh line up then technically you have a "new" team.

side note: Kam I have yet to see you post anything as being aware of the situation. That's just one persons opinion though. I would hate to think you are a troll if you really aren't one.

[wind]

The 'one new guy at the top' is the leader, telling those not-new guys what to do. And if you have ever been in a leadership position not knowing what your team is capable of makes shit so much harder and sometimes even make things worse because you give certain people the wrong job. Its less efficient to say the least. That's what most people who mention they're new are talking about I think anyways (at least that's what I meant when I mentioned it a few times... I prob shouldn't talk for others).

Anyways look at what has been released lately, they have all been incredibly minor changes. Now read how many threads/posts have completely annihilated those minor changes and bashed them to all hell. ROFL I'm not entirely surprised they haven't released any more info. Sucks though I too am curious and interested to know whats to come.

[Paksenarrion]

Point is, that I think everyone can agree on, we're all sick of waiting.

[Winterclaw]

No argument there, however things can take a deal of time to fix. I remember in one post, the new director (whoever it is) said he had to spend some time figuring out who is good at doing what and how quickly. I also wouldn't be surprised if it took him some time to ID short term goals and start working on long term ones. There might be a culture change needed, that takes time too. There might be interoffice politics and backstabbings going on slowing things down. Something you thought was fixed gets broken in a patch. I'm sure there were more than a few long meetings of people asking for ideas on how to fix this game.

I would like this game fixed/altered/finished/whatever but as someone who's worked in development before, I can assure that these things take time. Until then, you've got to tolerate the lemons as best you can if you want to be in it for the long haul. Will FF14 ever be a great game? Not in the next few years, that's for sure. It might get better with a few expansions, but at this point it would be unfounded optimism for this game to ever be great. Is it still salvageable? Yes. If the right people are in charge. If they have what they need. Good is still a possibility with time.

Whether you want to wait it out or not is up to you.

[graiman]

good arguments for both sides,
i think as much open communication from SE will make the world of difference,

i personaly think its been too long, but if there was more communication from the devs to the players(that are acctually playing btw, not waitin for the PS3) it wouldnt be so bad

[Jynx]

If you have ever worked or known someone in higher managment positions you know how amazingly slow the bearaucracy of "changes" actually happen. It might seem sudden when some-day the computer guys ram in your store and change all the machines into alien technology without you being the wiser.

Chances are it's been started 5 years ago and someone finally got around to making something actually happen. It's a ftal flaw in almost all corperations, thankfully the developers for FFXIV don't have as much tape to cut through but some hoops do still need to be jumped.

Otherwise I'm sure we would have Yoshi-P twitering dev updates every couple of hours, he seems the kind of person who just wants to scream what he is doing to the world but he is obviously being held on by a corperate leash.

[Spellbinder]

As far as company dynamics and decision making goes, lets not forget this is a Japanese company. Speaking in the traditional sense, the way things are done are somewhat different. If they stick to the practices of nemawashi that I've heard of in my talks with people here in Japan, the results of decision making are effective once the decisions are made but can take significantly longer than the more straight forward approaches of America.