Originally Posted by
Velthice
Xiv needs to stop arbitrarily spreading out their patches and their expansions in general. Core features of an expansion should be frontloaded. If they want deep dungeon to be a strong leveling choice, it should be launching at 7.1 or 7.2 at the latest. Then when you've delivered on all the features you advertised the expansion on, you can use the later patches for all the goofy experimental stuff (chaotic, hildebrand trials, island sanctuary, variant dungeons, etc...)
I'm sure they think they're keeping players around by dangling the carrot of promised content in front of them, but the reality is that people get fed up with waiting and leave until the feature they were waiting for is finally implemented, that is if they return at all and don't just move on to greener pastures. And you can see the situation we've found ourselves in now...