Bored...

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

For the 500th time. Development on major things are not released quickly. If you're bored, do something else til everything is done. Also, since Dec there have been a lot of changes, but I understand that there isn't anything drastic to catch your eye.

MMOs, before they are released, have content being worked on a year in advance. FFXIV does not have this luxury and their new direction in development started in January. This is the major difference between FFXIV and other MMOs who had a clear direction 8-12 months before their launch making sure they had a lot of content for each of their version updates/patches.

Don't expect anything huge til June as the letter states.

[Seif]

For the 500th time. Development on major things are not released quickly. If you're bored, do something else til everything is done. Also, since Dec there have been a lot of changes, but I understand that there isn't anything drastic to catch your eye.

MMOs, before they are released, have content being worked on a year in advance. FFXIV does not have this luxury and their new direction in development started in January. This is the major difference between FFXIV and other MMOs who had a clear direction 8-12 months before their launch making sure they had a lot of content for each of their version updates/patches.

Don't expect anything huge til June as the letter states.

Dear lord. Development does take time but this is beyond absurd. NO feature I've worked on in any genre has taken as long as the tiny small minuscule edits they're doing. I've seen entire animation systems being re-written and hand animated from ground-up in the time that SE has managed to scale up dodos.

It's another thing to cut SE some slack because of bad management but accepting that they have accomplished NOTHING substantial is just blind faith.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Dear lord. Development does take time but this is beyond absurd. NO feature I've worked on in any genre has taken as long as the tiny small minuscule edits they're doing. I've seen entire animation systems being re-written and hand animated from ground-up in the time that SE has managed to scale up dodos.

It's another thing to cut SE some slack because of bad management but accepting that they have accomplished NOTHING substantial is just blind faith.

The fact is that no one, not you or I, have worked on an SE project. You might have an understanding in development, but you obviously haven't worked on a large scale project.

Also, major changes don't affect just the ascetics of the game. It affect the lore, too. How to incorporate these changes to the classes and changing them to jobs affects so much you really need to figure out the best way to execute that and make it cohesive to the already implemented world. Development of this game took about... what? Five years and it was still not completed, why? Because it's not completely about small time development of stand alone objects.

If development did not take so much time there would be no need for advance planning and no need to take half a decade to finalize a game.