This live letter was a massive disappointment

[Rolder50]

I'm not really sure what people were expecting... look at patch 5.4. It was:
- new MSQ
- new side story
- new raid tier
- new crafted DoW/M gear
- new tomestones
- new/modified treasure map dungeon
- new triple triad cards

Anyone that has been playing this game since pre-EW and definitely pre-ShB should be aware that patch cycles are very much formulaic. And if someone was expecting something else, then they probably aren't aware that this game has been like this since 2013.

You are missing some MASSIVE additions in 5.4:

Save the Queen: Blades of Gunnhildr: Third chapter
Resistance Weapons upgrades
Adventuring Forays: Delubrum Reginae

[aveyond-dreams]

You are missing some MASSIVE additions in 5.4:

Save the Queen: Blades of Gunnhildr: Third chapter
Resistance Weapons upgrades
Adventuring Forays: Delubrum Reginae

In other words, the content that actually kept me subbed that patch. I was initially upset that we were getting just DR instead of a new zone but the rewards and the different ways you could approach the raid with Lost Actions made it a fun grind for my Law's Order sets.

Meanwhile in Endwalker there exists no such equivalent when it comes to those armor sets, nor for the Bozjan ones.

I guess I was supposed to do Island Sanctuary for the 365th beach glam they've produced instead?

I'm not trying to live in the game, I think its a hack of an excuse to tell people to play other games, since they can't seem to add anything of value in their mid expansion patches - and anyone who doesn't accept that is really huffing on Square copium

Endwalker should have simply been named "Play Other Games" the expansion. We've been hearing this since the start of the content lull becoming an obvious issue, mostly from people who are either so new that they don't see the issue themselves (yet) or from individuals whose definition of playing the game means idling in Limsa or a venue.

But hey if even the people in charge are more captivated by other games like TOTK, how can I blame them? It certainly has more going for it than XIV does these days. So if that's the kind of energy being put out into the world, all one can do at this point is follow it to its logical conclusion. The passion is gone from here and moved on elsewhere.

I only hope that XVI made good use of all the attention that FFXIV was clearly deprived of.

[Sheriyana]

I guess I was supposed to do Island Sanctuary for the 365th beach glam they've produced instead?

Island Sanctuary takes like 5 minutes a day if I'm being generous too, there's no reason to farm for excess mats so you can't really do it for much longer and you can easily rank up by just doing the workshop.