Why does everything take so long?

[Evenstar]

That's bull. All it's been so far is only the database shell, Keep in mind there's multiple servers, so you're going to have to make one for each server, then on top of that the UI, the player interaction with it, and programming each and every single item into the AH, not to mention dealing with how some items stack with 99 or 999 and so on, then there's organizing the items into each category.

Then you have to perform the internal QA and stress testing before you could put it out to public. Anyone, and I mean anyone that has even a smallest experience with software development, let alone IT field would know that you just can't make these things in 5 hours, let alone a day, hell let alone a week.

Which brings up one thing:

So you say it took you 5 hours to setup one server. Great. There's 18 server. 18 * 5, so that's 90 hours of work just the hardware alone. Say you'll copy and paste the database and all the whole nine yard of software development into each of the 18 'AH servers' for FFXIV. Great, then you have to make sure that it is working perfectly fine and operational, and I do mean perfectly fine. If there's one glitch, you have to go back and fix it, and test it again. it's a vicious cycle.

Then bare in mind that this is just ONE project of the whole FFXIV project to work on. There's still Airships, there's still chocobo, there's still content, and more quests, and more classes, the list just goes on, and on, and on.

And you have to consider this: You already got the Market ward, which is functioning just as well as an Auction House functions, so you have to ask yourself, and the team this: is it even worth doing the auction house, when you already got something that does the same job already in place, only that it needs to be more optimized? I mean sure, the whole thing sucked at one point, but now it actually works and it is actually functional that people can actually use it efficiently. There's still problem with it. IE: it crashes and resets, and we don't want that obviously so there's work in that, so put that against a WHOLE new, nearly redundant feature, which is going to further delay other, higher priority project.

Because it's not even possible, and even if it is, it's completely redundant and a waste of time to focus when anyone can agree that SE have more important and pressing matters to work on.

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Now keep in mind that this is coming from someone who is studying on Information Technology and Computer Science, including programming.

Thank god we have people with brains! Thank you! I just couldn't bring myself to write such a huge post, but you basically said everything I wanted to say. Too bad it is no use since most of the people here are ignorant and clueless when it comes to programming and software developing. I am studying Information Science and Computer Science myself and I agree with everything you said. Anyone with the smallest bit of knowledge how software developing works wouldn't dare to say an Auction House can be implemented in a week. It wouldn't suprise me if it would take up to a month with a small team of 4-5 people working on it.

You have to model it, build it and test it. After you are done in almost 100% of the cases you will end up with broken parts or stuff you didn't think about. So you end up going back to the drawing table, fix the code, test it some more and keep repeating that process until it is perfectly fine.

I didn't even mention the UI yet .... it is not like the guys can open Office 2007 and Paint and put stuff together in an hour ...