Miss the day when dev puts out a road map

I wish I could give you more +1's alimdia.

But yeah, the roadmap alimdia provided seems the most legit. It's as predictable as knowing what the school cafeteria will be serving for lunch (pizza again? really??). I want to be surprised, but I guess that ain't happening in XIV. Oh well. /wine

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Originally Posted by Usho

I wish I could give you more +1's alimdia.

But yeah, the roadmap alimdia provided seems the most legit. It's as predictable as knowing what the school cafeteria will be serving for lunch (pizza again? really??). I want to be surprised, but I guess that ain't happening in XIV. Oh well. /wine

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What if the surprise will be nothing as in literally nothing, mind you it'll happen I'm sure of it.

But Let me ask you however this.
Will you be ok with a longer patch delay but with real new content or will you prefer a formula BUT all the new infrastructure shifted to an expansion release (for example aquapolis, potd and everything else at SB release instead of their normal release).

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Originally Posted by alimdia

This game is already extremely predictable, I didn't even list the extra eureka maps or deep dungeon, but while we don't know when they will be added, we know they are in the roadmap.

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Yoshi already stated the Eureka updates were going to be every half patch.

Then followed up with stating it would be in 4.3x

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._yoships_walk/

I'm not sure a road map would make a difference right now. I mean, we can craft 90% of it ourselves; new dungeons here and here, new Alliance raids here, new Savage / Ultimate stuff there...

Personally, rather than missing the road map itself, I miss feeling excitement at what a road map might contain. I haven't really felt that since 1.x and the first couple of update cycles for ARR. Since then, it's very much felt like the development team is treading water, lacking the motivation / talent / resources to actually build out FFXIV properly. Until the development malaise improves, a road map would just be a reminder of precisely how stale FFXIV's updates have become.

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Originally Posted by worldofneil

They used to give us more details on future things... and then the community took up pitchforks when they didn't implement it or changed their minds (for technical or practical reasons?).

At least it seems that way to me and now they only tell us something when it's pretty much set in stone.

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Well to be fair they promised a lot and delivered very little. And if they would have taken the time to say "We are sorry but A couldn't be implemented due to technical difficulties so we switched priority to B and A likely wont be implemented as promised if at all" it wouldn't have been such an issue.

The issue lays in the way they handle their PR or their lack there of. They have very little want to communicate with the community and just never talk about things again when they move on or can't do something. Nor do they directly comment on concerns or questions. If they would be more open about their development and engage their audience more there would be a lot more trust and a lot less pitchforks.

Yoshi made so many grand promises about content and even things like housing pre 2.0 and then when they didn't deliver he just never mentioned it again and now just dodges any questions. So many of us, esp us legacy people, take everything said worth a grain of salt, not only in this game but in other SE titles as well. They mention something for XV, VII remake, X-3...I will believe it when I see it.

Idk if its a cultural thing or what but when you have a global market and a majority of your customers are from NA you need to take that into consideration when it comes to how you engage that audience. They cannot survive on name alone for that much longer if it feels like they keep pulling fast ones on us.

Please Yoshi P bring the road maps. here some way you solve it give time frames

we planned to bring this content at this point but give 1 or 2 week at latest

No need for road maps if the game won't be significantly changing. They only did that during 1.x because the game was so broken and they needed to show players they were working toward some kind of workable goals.