No content for 1 year :)

[ZephyrMenodora]

This isn't really delayed. They're getting back to their normal expansion schedule. Endwalker was the outlier. It's usually late spring/early summer.

Patch 2.0 | Release Date: August 27, 2013
Patch 3.0 | Release Date: June 23, 2015 (Less than 2 years)
Patch 4.0 | Release Date: June 20, 2017 (2 years)
Patch 5.0 | Release Date: July 2, 2019 (2 years)
Patch 6.0 | Release Date: December 7, 2021 (2 years and 5 months)
Patch 7.0 | Release Date: Summer 2024 (2 years and X months)

So, while the summer months was their prior release dates, between Endwalker and 7.0 there is an entire extra year of waiting compared to 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0.

[TaleraRistain]

Patch 2.0 | Release Date: August 27, 2013
Patch 3.0 | Release Date: June 23, 2015 (Less than 2 years)
Patch 4.0 | Release Date: June 20, 2017 (2 years)
Patch 5.0 | Release Date: July 2, 2019 (2 years)
Patch 6.0 | Release Date: December 7, 2021 (2 years and 5 months)
Patch 7.0 | Release Date: Summer 2024 (2 years and X months)

So, while the summer months was their prior release dates, between Endwalker and 7.0 there is an entire extra year of waiting compared to 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0.

Necessary evil really. Covid and Endwalker threw things out of whack. If they had tried to release this past summer, I don't think it would have gone well. And a winter release would keep us in the bad timeline and not get things back to the normal summer release schedule.

[ZephyrMenodora]

Necessary evil really. Covid and Endwalker threw things out of whack. If they had tried to release this past summer, I don't think it would have gone well. And a winter release would keep us in the bad timeline and not get things back to the normal summer release schedule.

I agree that a summer 2023 release would probably have resulted in a flimsy expansion given 6.0's release date, but I am disappointed that 2 and a half years rather than 2 years being the new normal. I hope we have a return to form for 8.0 and that is released Summer 2026. Else, we'll just have content spread out for longer periods of time like was felt the current era.

[TaleraRistain]

I agree that a summer 2023 release would probably have resulted in a flimsy expansion given 6.0's release date, but I am disappointed that 2 and a half years rather than 2 years being the new normal. I hope we have a return to form for 8.0 and that is released Summer 2026. Else, we'll just have content spread out for longer periods of time like was felt the current era.

I think it should be. The fact they're trying to get things back on a summer release speaks to that. I've always expected summer 2024 and once they confirmed Fan Fest dates that pretty much cemented it.

[AwesomeJr44]

I agree that a summer 2023 release would probably have resulted in a flimsy expansion given 6.0's release date, but I am disappointed that 2 and a half years rather than 2 years being the new normal. I hope we have a return to form for 8.0 and that is released Summer 2026. Else, we'll just have content spread out for longer periods of time like was felt the current era.

You know, with how apathetic people were when SE increased the length of a patch while not including more content to make up for it, I wouldn't be surprised if 2.5 years per expansion became the new standard. After all, a good portion of the playerbase won't care, so why not do something that saves SE effort and money as the cost of the playerbase?

Maybe in a few expansions they'll increase it to 3 years and we'll get the same people trying to defend it by saying "it's only half a year more than normal".

[Koros]

You know, with how apathetic people were when SE increased the length of a patch while not including more content to make up for it, I wouldn't be surprised if 2.5 years per expansion became the new standard. After all, a good portion of the playerbase won't care, so why not do something that saves SE effort and money as the cost of the playerbase?

Maybe in a few expansions they'll increase it to 3 years and we'll get the same people trying to defend it by saying "it's only half a year more than normal".

ye that's called a slippery slope fallacy. every time we slip down, and u mention it, it's the slippery slope fallacy. we will keep sliding down but don't you dare mention it because it's a fallacy fallacy fallacy fallacy fallacy