3.5 months... 4 months... 4.5 months... 5 months...

[Payadopa]

Oh hey it's Skiros. How's the family?
Been somewhat quiet lately apart from TOP. Even Aveyond hasn't posted much. I mean there is still FlameSorceress but that's not the same. :c

[Asari5]

i wonder how much time there will be between 6.5 and 7.0. normally its 6 months, but with the new 4 months between patches this has to go down to also 4 months. (if they wanna keep their 2 years between expansions) but that would mean they dont have more time, but its just different distributed.

[Deceptus]

Still better than the WoW way of just letting people rust and wither away for years without any patches or expansions.

And maybe just take a break? There is no reason why you need to play constantly XIV tbh. except ofc your obsession with the forums.

You say that, but if it keeps getting pushed, and pushed, and pushed then we're at 6 months between patches (where WoW is right now).

4 months was a good sweet spot, the fact they can't meet this schedule post covid is a resource management issue. It's not like they're reinventing the wheel here. They're mostly re-using the same content schedule (add dungeons, add trial, add 24 person raid, repeat) they've established since HW.

[Ayche]

One day it will be all over...
If you think it is bad now, think about when we approach the heat death scenario.

[Jybril]

This is a problem because we have had the same formula for 10 years but now they're starting to take away without
giving something good in return in months at a time now. So many things are a bust like Criterion whatever or the Island thing.
Why don't we have POTD yet? That is one system that people actually really liked and we haven't see another since SB.

Also, how many times are we gonna use the Covid Excuse? That was 3 years ago.
What you can give me is "Yoshi is working on FF16 so a lot of his people are over there"
and I'd believe it, because I honestly think that's why the quality of this game is going to hell.
He is working other projects and it's hard to do, I get it but one of your games are suffering because of it.

I'ma see what happens in 7.0 really. FF16 is releasing this year, this will give time for Yoshi to turn back on this game
as a main focus. If 7.0 (I'll give him half the expansion) isn't anything new or better then I'm out.
4K HD super grass isn't enough for me to stay like I'm sorry lol.

[Atelier-Bagur]

This is a problem because we have had the same formula for 10 years but now they're starting to take away without
giving something good in return in months at a time now. So many things are a bust like Criterion whatever or the Island thing.
Why don't we have POTD yet? That is one system that people actually really liked and we haven't see another since SB.

Also, how many times are we gonna use the Covid Excuse? That was 3 years ago.
What you can give me is "Yoshi is working on FF16 so a lot of his people are over there"
and I'd believe it, because I honestly think that's why the quality of this game is going to hell.
He is working other projects and it's hard to do, I get it but one of your games are suffering because of it.

I'ma see what happens in 7.0 really. FF16 is releasing this year, this will give time for Yoshi to turn back on this game
as a main focus. If 7.0 (I'll give him half the expansion) isn't anything new or better then I'm out.
4K HD super grass isn't enough for me to stay like I'm sorry lol.

You do realize were about to get a new deep dungeon within a future patch update for 6.3 right?

[Stasya]

Still better than the WoW way of just letting people rust and wither away for years without any patches or expansions.

And maybe just take a break? There is no reason why you need to play constantly XIV tbh. except ofc your obsession with the forums.

Take a break is just an excuse for poor development cycle. Why this is sub based mmo then?

[Poporito_Popoto]

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

You do realize were about to get a new deep dungeon within a future patch update for 6.3 right?

Taking to long
Everything should work the way I think it does.
Game is dead
-Insert Armchair Dev banter-
-Claim to be a dev myself and compare my lil Indie game to a massively successful game-
-Some nonsense about Million Dollar Company-

Cheetos

[DPZ2]

The patch cycle is fine for me. As someone who spent 10 years playing WoW back when the patch cycle was "cycle? what cycle?", and when every other MMORPG I played seemed to have the same type of schedule ("meh, we'll get around to it" or "Hey look, new DLC for you to purchase!"), the regularity of this game's patch cycle is a blessing.

And by regularity, I mean that patch X.1 follows expansion release X.0, and patch X.55 is followed by a new expansion. I mean "There is something new to do on both the story, dungeon and raiding side". I mean "new non-battle content arrives".

I don't play this game every day. There may be a week binge-watching a 50 episode Chinese Xanxia drama. There are certainly books to be read. And music to listen to. And conversations with In Real Life Friends and Family. You know -- the Important stuff. Plus this game, that game, the other game.

It wasn't always like that. There was a time when WoW (and other MMORPGs) was the only thing I did during my free time. I do not recommend that lifestyle. At all.