Patch 8.0 - How long is too long to wait?

Can't wait to hear more about those sweet words that nobody falls for anymore. We still don't have housing updates, we still don't have criterion, we still don't have a beastmaster job that was talked so much about it.

It will be Jan 2027...

I actually don't think it will be too long though, as they've back-loaded a lot of content, for a lot of different players... But I suppose the question here will be is whether the content will have much staying power.

I see a lot of people saying it will be in 2027. The question is not when do you think SE will release it, but, when do you think it's too long to wait.

As I said earlier, the cycle patch of this expansion is already broken. They release content on a "2 year model" between expansion and try to stretch it to 3 years. It simply doesn't work. Even when Yoshi-P told it would be 4 month instead of 3 between patch cycle, history already show us 2 release with 19 weeks of delay, like the lattest one. 19 week is closest to 5 months than 4 months. The 7.41 have been 2 weeks late than what we usually have.

I'm not here to make excuses to SE. We were able to have a good quality expansion in the past, with the 2 years models. If they reduce their team, or split the money/teams on other project, it's not the problem of the XIV players and we should be loud about it.

So, for me, even if I don't trust they'll do it, the clear answer is anything after November this year is a pure insult to every players of XIV.

That leave them, if they take the promised 4 month (and not 5) : 7.5 -> April 2026
8.0 in November leave them 7 months. It was usually 6 months between .5 patch and expansion for HW and SB and ShB. EW had a pandemic and DT is just slow. So 7 month on this calculation even give them an extra month + the time to do the last Fan Fest.

Anything after November is just an hard slap in the face of every players and an insult. I really hope that Yoshi-P do realize that he his slowly killing the game that he saved....

Which is why my answer is January. That's at the furthest edge of a reasonable time frame based upon everything we know so far with the current content release schedule, Fanfest's schedule, and Yoshi-P's own words stating 8.0 is coming very soon after Japan's Fanfest.

If they try to stretch it into February or March, fiscal year be damned, 8.0 could be immaculate but that's just too much time to expect the majority of players to still care.

If 8.0 does end up being awesome, there will be a number of players that will happily return to play after leaving during DT, but maintaining current numbers while still courting those same players that like FFXIV but fell off needs to be the goal.

Either way, we still don't know when it will come out. I'm honestly looking forward to what we're going to get in 8.0.

For me its more a case of how long is too soon, they need to take their time and do major overhaul of the game. People will come back to the game, they can re-build the player base, but they have to get with the times.

Personally I’d say this all really depends on communication. If they took extra time to make an expansion but actually communicated why, how they’re addressing it, let us see whatever we’re able to, etc etc, I wouldn’t really mind that much.

But, when it’s mostly just complete radio silence now, it’s hard not to start thinking ‘is then even coming anymore’ lol. Like with Beastmaster. The fact it’s only coming in the final patch kinda sucks, but if they had actually shown us pretty much anything about the job, let us know what the issues were and how they intend to address them, even just like a basic concept of what to expect lol.

Ultimately I’d say going the way we’re going now I’d want to see it like, very soon lol they give us nothing and we are famished. If they actually communicated with players in some form beyond the occasional live-letter (where they still usually say very little lol) I’d be much more forgiving about the time frame.

Not to say that I’d be cool with like, waiting 10 years but they say ‘please look forward to it’ every month lol.

NA Fanfest tends to be a bit of a drip feed, then months of nothing after. That's been my experience anyway. So we'll get a small trailer, the name, location, and maybe a job announcement or a teaser to one. Then a slide show of coming attractions. Then a live letter the following day. Hope they shake it up, though they've always played things a little too safe.

So I'm with most who think later this year, usually among a big release of another game (My money is on Monster Hunter Wilds Master Rank expansion).

The patch cycles already feel long enough, if they came out and said it will be end of 2027 that they will release the expansion I would consider just stopping playing until closer to expansion release, if it’s still of any interest to me of course.

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Originally Posted by Connor

But, when it’s mostly just complete radio silence now, it’s hard not to start thinking ‘is then even coming anymore’ lol. Like with Beastmaster. The fact it’s only coming in the final patch kinda sucks, but if they had actually shown us pretty much anything about the job, let us know what the issues were and how they intend to address them, even just like a basic concept of what to expect lol

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Yeah we haven’t gotten so much as a tease of what the job will look like, how it will play, what the job icon will be or even any artwork!

But one of the things that really bugs me is that I’ve been capped on Poetics all expansion. I could have been using those, over the patches, getting tome gear sets for every 10 levels of BST. But we don’t even know what gear category it’s going to fall into.