Is Stormblood an expansion or a Major update?

Just double checking. Up to this point, I've been thinking it's an expansion, but a friend of mine is saying it's just a major update. Which is it?

It's an expansion.

Serious question or you a troll ?

It's an expansion that brings with it major updates.
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Originally Posted by bounddreamer

It's an expansion.

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Thank you

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Originally Posted by Dumbledoremd

Serious question or you a troll ?

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It was serious question. I guess in his mind he thought it was going to be like the 2.4 patch.

It's both. Stormblood = version 4.0 of the game = called Expansion because it is a big update with loads of content = Major Update
3.4 3.5 are smaller updates called Patches (they also have new content but not as much as an expansion.)

It's an expansion. Also worth adding that despite being a patch, you will have to buy it the same as with Heavensward, and will get all 4.0 related content with your sub from then on.

It's somewhat classifies as both. Stormblood is going to be an expansion, but an expansion is really only a major (major) update. The only differentiation between the terms 'expansion' and 'major update' are that, major updates are not something you have to buy/pay for here at FFXIV. Expansions however, make you pay for the content you're receiving, but it brings a lot more with it than a simple major update would.

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Originally Posted by Bigcat9715

It was serious question. I guess in his mind he thought it was going to be like the 2.4 patch.

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Some people tried to equate Heavensward to a "big patch" and saying it wasn't deserving of being called an "expansion" so he likely thought that your post was a passive-aggressive reference to the same thing.

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