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.