Is the information pipeline for this game a bit slow?Follow

I've been following FFXIV ever since news came out that they were creating it and all i've ever read were conspiracy theories, never any proof that this was going on. If you guys have any proof that it was, I would definitely like to see.

Edited, May 15th 2014 2:36pm by Bidnastyme

Protip: Read and understand what i'm saying before accusing me of calling anyone names....

Uh.....I'm not calling anyone conspiracy theorists, I'm just saying every bit of information on the webs about SE outsourcing from China were all speculations and assumptions. All complete conspiracy theorists without any proof. You guys are the ones saying it, show me proof because I can't find any.

Protip: Assumptions and speculation.

Again, Fanboy, white knight, troll or not, I could care less. I just care about facts and having followed this game since news came out it was being created, every single thing I've read have all been assumptions. You're saying they admitted it? Provide the facts. If they were true, It wouldnt be hard to find but as you can see, doing any search you would find nothing of the sorts besides articles of assumptions and speculations.

You made the statement. You're the one saying that they outsourced and now you're conveniently saying that because of the china release you can't find any proof that what you're saying is true. Now who's the one unwilling to look at what's directly in front of them? As of right now, in front of me, there's no proof of what you're saying. And yes that's my problem. If you want to state something, show some proof because it's definitely not anywhere in front of me to see.

LOL, I don't need your help. I'm just asking for proof. Arent you're the one saying so? Then show me proof. How am I willfully in denial of the truth when their is no proof in the truth you're speaking of?

Edited, May 15th 2014 3:13pm by Bidnastyme

You keep on saying this but show me the proof? Am I just suppose to take your word for it? I don't know you. If I told you ARR was outsourced from India, you're just going to take my word for it? The reason I'm arguing with you is because following this game, I've never seen SE admit to anything. It's just a bunch of assumptions and speculations.

Of course I'm capable of using a search engine. And what you're saying is not easy to find. I see nothing of what you're saying, been searching this whole time. That's why I put the owness on you. Even you yourself said that it's hard to find, and now you're telling me it's easy to find? If it's so easy, bring it. Show me that proof. I'm not asking you to chase no rabbit. I'm saying, if you make a statement, then back it up.

Wait a second! WoW is remaking WoW to a HD something or other and calling it WoD? Sorry, this is news to me. I loved WoW for a lot of things. Graphics was not one of them. If this is true I will be subbing two games.

The word is ONUS.

Google that shiz

Well you can search and find that some parts of ffxv are being outsourced.. If they would do it for FFXV it isnt too hard to believe they would do it for XI or XIV

Outsourcing is normal for big game companies, especially for such a huge undertaking as MMORPGs.

Honestly, the question isn't "Did SE outsource parts of XIV 1.0 to China?"

The real question should be, "Did the contractors who were working on parts of 1.0 work in China or someplace else?"

Without doing all the heavy lifting (because all of us are capable), here's some of the most pointed evidence:

- The katakana and hiragana alphabets, used in every other FF game, were absent from FFXIV 1.0. In its place was Kanji, which is shared by the Chinese. That's how the infamous "horse bird" came about. The dev team tried to save face about this by explaining that Eorzea was very old, and chocobos were still called "horse birds." Um, yeah.

- After the game was launched, it had to be promptly shut down for an emergency maintenance because a huge list of items were still listed in-game in Chinese. You can find screenshots online.

- SE put out job ads seeking network engineers fluent in Chinese to run the game's servers.

- SE outsources tasks for its games, including our beloved ARR.

Now, keep in mind what I said before. We know that SE outsources, just as other game developers do. There's nothing sinister, shady or bad about that. So, the question is, where were SE's contractors for 1.0? Can anyone find any evidence that these contractors were anywhere other than China?

EDIT: One also must consider the horrid state of the game to be evidence in and of itself... not necessarily that the game was built by Chinese developers, but that the game was outsourced to coders who either had very little direction/oversight and/or did an absolute **** poor job. There's simply no way SE builds a **** like that in-house.

Edited, May 15th 2014 1:31pm by Thayos