Quote Originally Posted by VerdeLuck View Post
People like to meme on the "best community by the way" but how that's phrased, that is FFXIV. Patches are so stable and easy to predict we can predict them months out, patch dates aren't missed, features that are communicated always make it in.
FFXIV has a 4 month patch schedule but the consistency and regularity of the patches are something that's pretty much unmatched with any MMO or live service game. Compare that to Halo Infinite or Overwatch 2, where features will be announced, then quietly dropped, and road map after road map created to generate hype and then none of the goals met.
Or Destiny 2, where bungie wll just cut features, yank content from the game because it's "too old", and patches are few and far between.

There's a lot to complain about but the consistency of SE supporting this game with patches is really not one of them. The players of this game really forget how good they have it compared to other live service games on dev support.
ESO does this just as well if not better, BDO does this just as well if not better, Warframe does this just as well if not better. XIV ain't doin much special in terms of patch and content *consistency* Balance hasn;t been consistent, how they flip flop around on when they release relics has NOT been consistent for over 10 years, Alliance raids are never consistent. And an overly predictable schedule isn't a good thing, it means once you burn out of XIV theres nothing going on a majority of the time to bring you back because you already know whats gonna happen.

Predictability can at times turn to Stagnancy.