This game is on a terrible state right now.

[Absimiliard]

And this isn't one of those mmos. Do you think that they'll suddenly start pumping out more content with shorter cycles just because other mmos do it?

That's.. not even the context of the discussion, though? What?

You said them adding more content would require further increasing the time between patches. I observed that other MMOs manage to put out a lot more in a lot less time. Oft times with a lower budget, to boot. And yes, many of these MMOs do share staff with other games, so part of FFXIV's team being dedicated to FFXVI at the moment doesn't really offer much of an excuse. Hell, FFXIV itself defeats the argument. Patch cycles used to be shorter, and they did fairly consistently contain way more content than what we've seen from Endwalker patches thus far.

[aveyond-dreams]

That's.. not even the context of the discussion, though? What?

You said them adding more content would require further increasing the time between patches. I observed that other MMOs manage to put out a lot more in a lot less time. Oft times with a lower budget, to boot. And yes, many of these MMOs do share staff with other games, so part of FFXIV's team being dedicated to FFXVI at the moment doesn't really offer much of an excuse.

All I know is that in Endwalker these extended patch cycles have amounted to more glitches and less content that actually lasts. Back to 3 month patch cycles please, it's clear that without the necessary amount of pressure being applied that the work we ultimately got is not up to the standard set in the past. Even prior to Endwalker I wasn't sympathetic to the reasons given for extending these cycles, but now? It's clear that doing so was one of the worst mistakes that they've made in the last 2 years.

And all this with no promise of 7.0 prior to next spring at the earliest. Indefensible.