Babe wake up, new Famitsu Interview just dropped

[xbahax92]

Gonne leave this here, credit to u/danks for translating.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...cult_crescent/

Some things I found personally entertaining:

• The 6.x series focused on "being able to play alone" and set the goal of "widening the scope". From here on, we will focus on the original MMORPG of "it's more fun if you play with multiple people!"
• It sounds like the schedule will look like 7.2 normal patch content, then 4 weeks after we'll get Cosmic Exploration, then 4 weeks or so after that we'll get Occult Crescent. (This will be ironed out tomorrow in the LL)

Please discuss. Are you personally happy, that we have to wait 2 months for new piece of content?

[Red-thunder]

Timed 4 weeks to milk as much sub out of you as possible

[RaideDuku]

Timed 4 weeks to milk as much sub out of you as possible

A game company that runs a subscription based game wants you to continue to pay a subscription?

Jesus Christ, he's cracked the code. Get this man a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.

[Collin_Sky]

A game company that runs a subscription based game wants you to continue to pay a subscription?

Jesus Christ, he's cracked the code. Get this man a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.

Or you know, they could either create content with actual substance that keeps players busy and willingly subscribed... or drip feed scraps every few weeks to milk the player base dry with minimal effort. I'm sure paying more for less is exactly what a sarcastic genius like you wants.

[User202503201232]

[CVXIV]

I've already obtained max level for all of my jobs, so seeing that the intended means of leveling in Dawntrail coming so late is a bit disappointing
It would be nice if they released much sooner

Honestly, it'd be neat if the relic dropped the same time as the expansion, seeing as it's a weapon meant to grow with you along your journey
Though I don't know a good way to implement that without invalidating the other weapons unless they make it grindy to get

[Jeeqbit]

The interviews basically confirmed the raid at the end will be that 48 person CE type raid. They also said we'd have to travel to the CEs to increase exploration. There is knowledge/lore to collect, a lot of the rewards will take time to get so you can't just get them right away, and the jobs won't all be availabe at the start. You may find jobs don't work and you have to use a different one to achieve what you want, especially in the raids.

They also confirmed the trial is part of the MSQ which was pretty obvious anyway.

Are you personally happy, that we have to wait 2 months for new piece of content?

Honestly, yes. Then I can focus on one thing at a time.

[CVXIV]

Honestly, yes. Then I can focus on one thing at a time.

The upcoming occult crescent already sounds extremely grindy from the looks of it so far
Grind knowledge level, phantom job level, and I think it even mentioned weapons and armor? lol

[CidHeiral]

[LIST][*]The 6.x series focused on "being able to play alone" and set the goal of "widening the scope". From here on, we will focus on the original MMORPG of "it's more fun if you play with multiple people!"

I'm glad they're refocusing on what makes MMOs special. You can play solo in most games, what makes this genre unique is the massively multiplayer aspect. It's fine to have solo options but that should never be the main focus.

The upcoming occult crescent already sounds extremely grindy from the looks of it so far
Grind knowledge level, phantom job level, and I think it even mentioned weapons and armor? lol

People on this forum spent the entirety of Endwalker complaining nonstop about not having a grind to do.

It has to be some mindset issue where they feel it's not ready despite confirming they were "working on them" all the way back in October 2023, despite confirming they had "prototypes" in the media tour, despite what you see there from 6 months ago, and despite 6 additional months to "ponder" if it's good enough to release.

It's the sort of thing that players made work overnight.

Some dude farting out a mod in his free time is not the same thing as a software corporation developing a new feature among all the other tasks they're juggling and then rolling it out to multiple platforms. And before anyone says it I'm not "defending SE," I work in a very similar field and understand why these things take a while. I once had a task that was literally turning something from off to on that got caught up in approvals for two months.

[Jeeqbit]

I work in a very similar field and understand why these things take a while. I once had a task that was literally turning something from off to on that got caught up in approvals for two months.

I understand that, but that's the issue I'm highlighting. Their team is so split up into departments, procedures and approvals that the most basic task that could be done in a lunch break takes over a year and a half.

And that's a problem that a lot of players are being affected by. Somehow, relatively simple tasks need a bit more free reign and the ability to crossover into other departments' jurisdiction ie. design, UI being all done by the programmer so they can just get it done in a lunch break, instead of it taking literally years.