The bar for Island Sanctuary and Criterion Dungeons are very high

[Avoidy]

My expectations for island sanctuary are rock bottom. The writing was on the wall when devs started dialing it back hard and basically began begging the players to curb their enthusiasm for it. This isn't gonna be some Animal Crossing meets Stardew Valley meets Final Fantasy XIV thing. But a lot of people I know are expecting just that.

Hell, just look at Ishgard housing and how that turned out. I know people who were waiting since 5.0 for that to hit. They did all the restoration stuff too. Some of them even got homes in other wards and didn't decorate at all so they could relocate to a nice Ishgard plot without tearing anything down. Just sat in an empty house and waited. 5.3, nothing. 5.5, nothing. 5.55, nothing. 6.0 "you can view it." 6.1 we finally get it, and then -- well, we all know how it turned out. They couldn't even get a house there because SE only allowed individuals to buy from 6 wards. Imagine waiting years for something so basic and not getting it. Temper your expectations always. Even the devs are warning us to keep our expectations low.

That being said, as long as we're talking about expectations, some things I'd love would be 300 furniture spots in apartments, a patio space for gardening, an increase in CWLS limits to 200 people, a "last logged in on X date" function for CWLSes, a friends system that deletes me from your list if I delete you from mine, a general "Friends" chat channel that broadcasts my text to a channel visible by everyone on my friends list, the power to tie hairstyles to glams, the ability to change glam plates anywhere in the world including dungeons, an actual barefoot option and not just ugly sandals, and so much more QoL stuff that games like maplestory were able to do in 2003. So I'm not immune to wanting nice things and being disappointed. But for island sanctuary at least, even the devs are going out of their way to tell people not to get hyped. I will keep my expectations low and just hope I'm wrong.

[Skiros]

I am setting the bar really low for Island Sanctuary and especially for criterion dungeons. The only bar I have set high for is the relic questline.

They didn't even announce a new relic zone yet so I wouldn't keep your hopes up.

[KageTokage]

Unless they decide to spring a new relic zone on us out of the blue, I'm expecting the relic is going to be more akin to HW's this go-around.

[Nanne]

Unless they decide to spring a new relic zone on us out of the blue, I'm expecting the relic is going to be more akin to HW's this go-around.

It is finally time for PvP relic

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Unless they decide to spring a new relic zone on us out of the blue, I'm expecting the relic is going to be more akin to HW's this go-around.

Please, god. Go back to actually enjoyable relic grind that doesn't cut you off from the entirety of the game and is something easier to do with friends who start later than you.

[Liam_Harper]

They couldn't even get a house there because SE only allowed individuals to buy from 6 wards. Imagine waiting years for something so basic and not getting it. Temper your expectations always. Even the devs are warning us to keep our expectations low.

FF14 has always been "Curb Your Expectations 14 Online" unfortunately.

"No the spaghetti code can't handle that", "no this takes too much server load", "no we can't have that because bad coding restricts it", "no the netcode couldn't handle that", "no the STF is too small to handle bots", "no their staff are too busy to make GNB/DNC weapons", "no they told in advance us the new races would be half assed so it's fine, we can't expect polished races", "no it's understandable they trimmed seasonal events, they're busy with Endwalker", "no it's understandable they trimmed dungeons each patch, very busy", "sure your job isn't fun or as good as other jobs but it's viable, they did fine", "Diadem was bad, here's Diadem Rework, Diadem 2 and Diadem 3 ...Diadem 3 isn't intolerable, they're doing good!", "I hope you like FATEs, you've been force fed them for a decade and you'll be force fed them for the next", "You liked WoW's Pet Battles, sure we can add that! Here's ...Verminion.", "No deep dungeon this expansion but we put exp in Bozja, same thing?"

I like ff14 in many ways, but I never expect anything much from them anymore.

[hydralus]

They probably will do another relic zone because it's such an efficient tool. It gives both alternative leveling, a new zone, and relic grind all in one.