How is anyone fine with the 4-month patch delivery schedule?

[Ixon]

What is it offering that ShB didn’t give us? ShB gave us an Ultimate. ShB gave us an ex trial. We were losing content in ShB long before the pandemic and please for the love of god, stop grasping at the pandemic excuse. They specifically delayed the expansion half a year to account for it and they themselves stated they were working at 90-95% efficiency before said delays. It’s not just about the gear sets lmao. It’s the fact that since ShB, the expansion that made the most money and before covid, we’ve been seeing downgrades. Whether it be them cutting dungeons,cutting deep dungeon,hildibrand, primal weapons etc. We are 4 expansions in the game and like i said before and you didn’t address, they are still reusing gear whilst not even making it dyable. Look at the level 87 dungeon set. As for the artifact gear comment, we only used it with one extra dungeon than we did in ShB. We had the artifact gear before the final ShB dungeon lol.

Also, it is extremely disingenuous to try to use Soken and his cancer as some kind of argument. He isn’t the only composer or music person lmao. You do know that don’t you?EW being amazing is entirely subjective and there are many who disagree with that statement.

So idk if you know this, but EW just release, so we are planning to get a lot of stuff in the future patches. We are already on the roadmap set to get more ultimates that ShB. I'd love to be in your shoes where I could just simply wave away a global pandemic, alas, I cannot. And yes, there have been cuts on some things, HOWEVER, and you miss this but HOWEVER, it's to add items elsewhere. If you have a core group of devs right, and you want to add in something new, they cannot also be working on something else, or you get two bad products. Yes they have cut the total number of dungeons, but who actually cares? And if a cut dungeon leads to new content then good riddance. Also hi, you must be new, welcome to FFXIV, they re-use gear sometimes. In ShB the level 77 set was a crafter/gatherer set. Everyone has been working hard for FFXIV, everyone. I have no doubt that people there are just twiddling there thumbs at any given moment. You specifically are pointing blame, with a gimme gimme gimme attitude, assumeing some tin foil hat conspiracy to steal peoples hard earned cash when all they do is make video games to make people happy. And people are happy, even when all they get is an old coat.

[KizuyaKatogami]

So idk if you know this, but EW just release, so we are planning to get a lot of stuff in the future patches. We are already on the roadmap set to get more ultimates that ShB. I'd love to be in your shoes where I could just simply wave away a global pandemic, alas, I cannot. And yes, there have been cuts on some things, HOWEVER, and you miss this but HOWEVER, it's to add items elsewhere. If you have a core group of devs right, and you want to add in something new, they cannot also be working on something else, or you get two bad products. Yes they have cut the total number of dungeons, but who actually cares? And if a cut dungeon leads to new content then good riddance. Also hi, you must be new, welcome to FFXIV, they re-use gear sometimes. In ShB the level 77 set was a crafter/gatherer set. Everyone has been working hard for FFXIV, everyone. I have no doubt that people there are just twiddling there thumbs at any given moment. You specifically are pointing blame, with a gimme gimme gimme attitude, assumeing some tin foil hat conspiracy to steal peoples hard earned cash when all they do is make video games to make people happy. And people are happy, even when all they get is an old coat.

You’re implying the devs have 100% of say in anything. At the end of the day Square Enix is a company, all they want is our money. Also you’re constantly saying things “who actually cares.” Many people have expressed dissatisfaction in the downgrade of content, the problem is when people try to gatekeep the people talking about this. Also, i’d rather you tone down the condescending tone. I’m not new, yes they’ve given a road map, they did so for ShB. However thats future patches, not right now. Just on release i’m talking about we’re getting less than normal.

At this point you’re deliberately ignoring the information i’m giving you. They delayed the expansion specifically to account for any delays the pandemic caused. We were missing content in Shadowbringers BEFORE THE PANDEMIC EVEN BEGAN. What exactly did the cut dungeons in ShB lead to? It didn’t go to deep dungeon because that was cut. Certainly didn’t go to adding primal weapons for new jobs because those were all cut. Yes i know they reuse gear, again, please read my posts properly before responding. My point is we are 4 expansions in this game, with the game breaking record sales, and they can’t at the very least make reused gear DYABLE?! Meanwhile all the other mmo’s nowadays have a nice transmit system with infinite glamour space and 99% of gear dyable…People are happy just as there are people that are unhappy. You’re implying everyone is happy and satisfied with the game. That’s not the case.

[Ixon]

At the end of the day Square Enix is a company, all they want is our money.

When Yoshi-P took control of FFXIV in 2010 he did so under one condition; that he would be given complete control over FFXIV to do whatever he thought was necessary to turn it around. Square Enix agreed with one stipulation, that they would retain control over the Mogstation and Mogstation items. In fact, Yoshi-P himself had mentioned a few times about the "scary woman/Empress/Baroness" in charge of the Mogstation on multiple occasions. You can look all this up yourself. So, at the end of the day FFXIV is under the direction of Yoshi-P, and while I am sure he gets paid fairly well, I don't think he is as tyrannical as others point him out to be and isn't out to nickel and dime us all.

How are we getting less than normal? Pretty sure we got exactly the same amount of dungeons and trials we got last expansion on release. In fact, this expansion had hours of more MSQ I believe? More of it being cinematic and voiced over than before? Not to mention the addition of two new jobs that they have to introduce and balance throughout the game in addition to the other 17 jobs that have to be balanced, and adding trusts to every dungeon and some of the trial bosses. The game isn't perfect, the game can be better, but when you complain about a coat, or that the devs aren't doing enough despite what they have to work through, everything else falls on deaf ears.

[Xavier_Firbold]

When Yoshi-P took control of FFXIV in 2010 he did so under one condition; that he would be given complete control over FFXIV to do whatever he thought was necessary to turn it around. Square Enix agreed with one stipulation, that they would retain control over the Mogstation and Mogstation items. In fact, Yoshi-P himself had mentioned a few times about the "scary woman/Empress/Baroness" in charge of the Mogstation on multiple occasions. You can look all this up yourself. So, at the end of the day FFXIV is under the direction of Yoshi-P, and while I am sure he gets paid fairly well, I don't think he is as tyrannical as others point him out to be and isn't out to nickel and dime us all.

How are we getting less than normal? Pretty sure we got exactly the same amount of dungeons and trials we got last expansion on release. In fact, this expansion had hours of more MSQ I believe? More of it being cinematic and voiced over than before? Not to mention the addition of two new jobs that they have to introduce and balance throughout the game in addition to the other 17 jobs that have to be balanced, and adding trusts to every dungeon and some of the trial bosses. The game isn't perfect, the game can be better, but when you complain about a coat, or that the devs aren't doing enough despite what they have to work through, everything else falls on deaf ears.

Regarding all the talk about gear re-use, I've taken the time to compile the data across all four expansions.

This is looking at gear from a WAR point of view.
Explanation below the image.



Link if images doesn't load: https://imgur.com/gallery/8JVr3JK

Purple: First time the gear model was used, never used since
Green: First time the gear model was used, later re-used
Blue: Re-used gear, but role-swapped
Yellow: Gear re-used on same role
For the re-used and swapped gear, I've listed the name of the original item.

Not including AF, tome or raiding gear as they even out across the expansions. While HW AF gear was tome2, the expansion did have the crafted Chivalric Coat set that was unique at the time (re-used in 3.05).

This does not look at dye, only gear models.

Based on this, we can see that the amount of new gear models is lowering from expansion to expansion.

[DPZ2]

Meanwhile all the other mmo’s nowadays have a nice transmit system with infinite glamour space and 99% of gear dyable…

All the other MMOs? Name ten. Please. I'll wait. Your statement is hyperbole.