Why does everything take so long?

[Jennestia]

anything else you would like to add?

About? I already seen he posted his outline, which is all it is, there's no actual functionality to it yet so I can't actually play with the emulation.

[Verecund]

This is what happens when you try to release a game on a half-developed engine.

[Ostia]

This is one guy doing this in 5 hours, you mean to tell me if the SE devs divided up the work and really REEEALLY wanted to they couldnt give us a functioning AH in a week? I think they could. Blizzard would be able to do it.

Blizzard would have turned this game around in 3 months period. Unlike the FFXI team blizzard actually updates it's player base on changes that are forthcoming, for example during the late Wrath developing cycle, they where going to release 2 events revolving around trolls and midgets, they gave us the heads up 4 months before they where released, they had an entire website up for those events, where you had screenshots, videos, introductions, lore, enemy information etc etc.

All that 4 months before the content was completed, here we got a "Possible before you die content will be added" and thats it. I have yet so see any actual evidence that they are working on company's etc etc.

[Anathiel]

All I have to say is.....OH SNAP! Dude, that was awesome.

[Jennestia]

This is what happens when you try to release a game on a half-developed engine.

Crystal Tools wasn't half developed as FFXIII had so little flaws compared to XIV -- XIV in itself wasn't finished.

[viion]

my XIVPads took me 2 weeks to create the foundations and almost every feature you see, but since January I've done various adjustments which is listed in news (this is like: Graphs, Gear pages, Linkshells). Though 1. I am not a professional, 2. I have university and work 3. Not being paid to do it and 4. I'm on ma own XD

I know game development takes a very long time, I've worked on a few community games (unreal/unity etc), but the speed SE is going is EXTREMELY disgusting, especially when other games can smash out a lot very fast. Fair enough they redesigning a lot but thats just a fancy word for extensive tweaking, because that is all they're doing, they not deleting the entire system and recoding from scratch, they will just be adjusting it a lot, theres no point deleting things that work fine (this is code not features).

Take TERA for example, has updates every 2 weeks, along with large patches and even a planned expansion in summer lol.

[Corrderio]

I don't think it's a matter of how long it will take to add an AH, but rather if he feels it's necessary right now. While Yoshida did mention an AH in his letters don't forget he said the first things he was going to work on were the UI and battle system.

Don't get me wrong, I want to see the wards demolished as much as the next person, however at the same time I can't argue that they're not working for the current population.

[Jennestia]

Take TERA for example, has updates every 2 weeks, along with large patches and even a planned expansion in summer lol.

Take a game that wasn't rushed out vs a game that was rushed out and needs to be redesigned..hmm..

[TonyMontana]

Wow your nose is so brown right now brah!

I was just trying to give the guy props but if that equates to brown nosing then awsome I am brown nosing.

[Evenstar]

Funny to see how people sitting behind their desks doing nothing but ranting on a forum think it is easy to develop a game. It is seriously hilarious.

Then you got someone comparing a SQL database AH to an MMORPG AH, its seriously freaking hilarious how ignorant and sad some of you guys are. I really feel sorry for you guys.