2019 Patch 4.5 Release Schedule FEEDBACK

[WellFooled]

The OP might not be the most eloquent, but I agree with their point. Staggering the content out has some negative effects.

Firstly, it makes each individual patch less exciting. When patch 2.1 dropped it introduced player housing, PvP, 24 man raids. extreme primals (Not one, but FIVE), Hildabrand, two dungeons, two beast tribes, treasure maps, and the aesthetician. It was like a mini-expansion all on its own. It was incredibly fun to log in and barely be able to even sample all of the stuff in a day. Let alone experience all the depth they had to offer. That kid-in-a-candy-store feeling is gone now. Patch 4.5 will have ONE new dungeon, a 24 man raid, one new trial/extreme, one new custom delivery client, and a board game. That's it. I'll have that knocked out in a couple of hours. The excitement for patch day is now only because of new MSQ for me.

Second, lets say you're someone that is mostly excited about one particular piece of content: like Blue Mage or Eureka. Now instead of getting your most anticipated content on patch day you instead have to wait for sometimes weeks, while other players are getting their most anticipated item right away. I'd rather we just get all of the patch's content at once and be able to play them in whatever order we wish instead of getting that order dictated for us.

[Destati]

Second, lets say you're someone that is mostly excited about one particular piece of content: like Blue Mage or Eureka. Now instead of getting your most anticipated content on patch day you instead have to wait for sometimes weeks, while other players are getting their most anticipated item right away. I'd rather we just get all of the patch's content at once and be able to play them in whatever order we wish instead of getting that order dictated for us.

If you want to focus on the main scenario first and worry about Blue Mage the following week, you are free to do so. For those who are eager to try out Blue Mage, they can choose to do that before focusing on the story.

It would be one thing if they said that Blue Mage wasn't ready to be shipped out yet, but they flat out said that it's ready. And since it is ready, I would prefer to let players choose what content they want to work on first.

These are my thoughts exactly. I was really looking forward to jumping on BLU the moment the patch dropped, and dip my toes into the other things a few days later. I suppose it's better for it to be pushed back a week as opposed to, say, a month, but still. I'm not a huge fan of this recent trend of SE staggering content, and I'm sure I speak for plenty of people when I say I know how to pace myself and not burn through new content. If people want to do that, then that's their prerogative. I can understand pushing content back in order to fine-tune it (which was the impression I got when they were staggering the releases of things like Eureka and HoH), but if it's good to go and ready to be released, then I see no reason for them not to.

Edit: Also more staggered content = more maintenance periods to implement said content. Why would anyone want this.