Quote Originally Posted by Kaedan View Post
And again, you're assuming they're planning on adding one.

You have no idea what they are working on, so you have no idea how long it should take.

I'm sure they're all playing frisbee in the office, telling fart jokes and making copies of their butt-cheeks. They're not working at all, since you seem to think SE is willing to pay all them for doing nothing. >.>

They have told us they are making drastic changes. Those take time. Just because they aren't updating the game for every little change they plan to make doesn't mean they aren't doing anything.
i totally get that this project includes more than just an auction house. but i don't understand why it takes so long to see any dramatic changes. we have seen no dramatic changes so far, which is ABSOLUTELY unheard of after 6 months of development on ANY project, let a lone a flagship project that FAILED and REQUIRES a metric shit ton of changes.

You know what? yeah, they are dicking around the water cooler all day.

if i told any of my clients that i tweaked my software slightly for the last few months, i'd be up shit's creek without a paddle. i'm expected to have dramatic changes quarter to quarter. oh boy, I made a SOAP service to integrate a 3rd party bug reporting service into every day pharma web apps last quarter? this quarter i better have that shit be single sign on enabled, with real time feedback enabling, and integrated with every other intranet web-app, or my ass is toast.

i can;t believe any of you are accepting the pace that these changes are coming to FFXIV. even if I look at the MMO development world alone, under a microscope, there are MMO developers who are puttnig out more conent and more fixes faster than FFXIV ever has. Trion released a world event and a dozen patches' worth of bug fixes in A SINGLE MONTH after release. it took the original FFXIV dev team TWO MONTHS to release their first patch after official service began.

P.S. for whoever said a web interfaced database is much simpler than a thick client interfaced database, you're wrong. sorry guy, it's not hard to plan up an add/remove database with or without web interfaces. in addition, copying the same environment from one server to 18 servers is a minuscule task.