Dev Blog: Welcome to 2011!

Instead, we’re now spending two or three months doing nothing[/B].

I misread the first line. Or maybe it wasn't being misread.
So they're really just taking a month as a breather.

Sometimes we’ll have an idea for an event or a contest or a sale that just can’t be done because we don’t have the time to properly implement it.

Seriously?

Then there’s the issue of bugs. All those maintenances meant lost time we could have been using to fix bugs before they are released. The result has been some less-than-stable patches and unfortunate game glitches.

Maintenance to fix stuff, is GOOD. Because you FIX stuff. All these hacks and glitches still persist. Fix those instead? How about canceling a patch or make a filler patch for stuff? Oh, don't forget, maintenance and such already get delayed. There's no real issue if you already delayed it/if you delay it/delay it more. There's only a problem with it if there's something like the evolving ring event.

There was simply never enough development time! Since everything had to fit into that month-long patch cycle, creating exclusive content became prohibitively difficult.

Well, there's your Masteria, folks.

A big game comes with big responsibility, they're perfectly prepared to handle MS! /sarcasm
That, and if they're understaffed... weren't things better earlier? Like they had, what, 3-6 different GMs who world hop and such, and do stuff/smega? What happened to that?