Quote Originally Posted by Tridus View Post
It might. Or it might not. If they're going to stop content updates for a patch cycle or two in order to focus on netcode and infrastructure level stuff that will help us later, their usual method of "tell players nothing until right before it's done" will result in total failure.
This here may be FFXIV's biggest failure. The utter lack of communication with the playerbase only creates resentment. Look no further than Eureka. Had they been more upfront with potential difficulties or outright acknowledged they intend to add more; they simply couldn't do everything all at once. I suspect people would have been far more forgiving. Why? We can hang our proverbial hats on "we're working on many of the things you're asking for." When they say nothing, people tend to assume their feedback isn't being received. Granted, XIV has a poor habit of asking for feedback only to ignore it. Ask the PvP crowd.

Quote Originally Posted by Tridus View Post
But doing that in secret doesn't give us that. All we see is nothing happening for months and weak updates when they do come out. Without a mindset shift, the only way this works is if we limp along as we are right now and 5.0 surprises us with major fixes to this stuff. But that makes the entire 4.x cycle pretty painful. I mean, honestly I'm not sure how 4.3 is going to go because while 24 person raids are great, one of those alone can't sustain Stormblood for 3 months given the mess that Eureka is. People will get bored, fast. They need something to look forward to. Right now, everyone who dislikes Eureka has a pretty big hole because it was intended to give them content to do for a while and it's not delivering on that.
My prediction?
  • New MSQ
  • New EX Primal (will be easier than Shinryu)
  • Rabanastre v2.0 (Hopefully closer to Weeping City)
  • Ultimate
  • Updates to the Glamour Dresser (Items can be removed; plates increased by five)
  • PotD v2 (in 4.35)

I fully anticipate they will hope Rabanastre and the new Primal carry people's interest alongside Eureka until PotD v2 comes around. Admittedly, despite progging Ultimate, I do sometimes wonder if it's truly worth the endeavour. So few people can or even want to prog it. I feel a second primal or raid boss would be better for the community even if I'd miss the challenge.