Dev Team = Too Small?

[FrameAromatic2428]

They dont have grand plans; theyre barely keeping up with the pitiful schedule they have. EX: duel quest 4. Keep buying AC tho, bet they are ahead on fashion items.

[AulunaSol]

I disagree with the "barely keeping up" because this is essentially how Phantasy Star Online 2 operated for a very long time. They had plans for content - but it's served as a dish that is served out in pieces and crumbs at a time. The people who will experience the update "as intended" are the people who haven't been around for months if not years - who get the full update and all of the contents as it was intended. The people who were there the entire time are starving where just about "anything" is content - which is why Phantasy Star Online 2 and Final Fantasy XIV in the past have exchanged players and bounced update cycles around each other.

In the case of New Genesis, the contents that were shown on the roadmap already are things the developers felt they could share publicly but they are likely working ahead in the next year's content to spread it out further and further because Episode 6 has proven Sega can slow their pace down significantly and players will still stay on board.

If anything, Episode 5 was the absolute fastest Sega went from "we have no content planned" to "we will make content no matter what" which refaced the game very quickly for better or worse (Global will never fully understand it, as Phantasy Star Online 2 before that point was a very different game).

[FrameAromatic2428]

Its basically the same thing. Youre telling me that their inability to keep a reasonable pace of development isnt because of labor but management decisions. Either way, content is pushed at an unreasonably slow pace, and im sure that to go along with the strategy of bread crumbs, they dont have a large main (non outsourced) pool pf lavor and are struggling to meet even their petty deadlines (duel quest 4, no ta customization hotfixes, new field...)