The Next Live Letter is on October 31st, which means 7.4 is likely mid December..

[RedLolly]

Sony is Japanese.
SEGA is Japanese.
Nintendo is Japanese.
Stop infantilizing Japanese people. This is not a Japan problem. This is a Square Enix problem. You know, the same company that uses your sub fee to sell you remakes of games you already own? Square Enix is a laughing stock among its own investors.

Fact #1: the non-Japanese player base accounts for 2/3rds of this game’s subscriber count. Other directors know this. Yoshi-P knows this, which is why he wrote FF16. You do not need to submit to Glorious Nippon. You ARE important.

Fact #2: a raid on the evening of the 23rd in Japan time will cut in to plans on the 24th, which is an important day. For everyone including them. This is not disputable. It’s important for every other Japanese company.

If the patch schedule are not as described in the OP, it would be even more shameful for us as people are actively yearning for it to happen. I will be here next week to remind you all about how much you desperately wanted to raid on Christmas.

How is understanding that the devs' development and release schedule works around the holidays that they live with "infantilizing" them. It's actually extremely common for games to have releases, updates, and events November to January because of holiday sales and vacation time. I usually can't play on patch days because of the tragedy of having a full time job. It's not a big deal.

Actually, delaying it WOULD be an issue since a few weeks from the theorized release is Golden Week, which is a massive work holiday in Japan. Do we really want to push a patch a month back because a few people are sad they can't game on Christmas? Are you serious?

[tuypo1]

I don't know how people can say this only affects world firsters when there's weekly loot limits, I don't do savage I barely even do extremes but I would be slightly miffed if I missed out on the first week of loot of an alliance raid because I was busy with something else, normal raid tokens too I guess but especially alliance raid loot

[Daralii]

Actually, delaying it WOULD be an issue since a few weeks from the theorized release is Golden Week, which is a massive work holiday in Japan. Do we really want to push a patch a month back because a few people are sad they can't game on Christmas? Are you serious?

What are you talking about? Golden Week starts at the end of April.

[YumieYumiki]

I don't know how people can say this only affects world firsters when there's weekly loot limits, I don't do savage I barely even do extremes but I would be slightly miffed if I missed out on the first week of loot of an alliance raid because I was busy with something else, normal raid tokens too I guess but especially alliance raid loot

That's absurd. In either case (raid released a week during which you can't play versus raid released a week during which you can), you won't have loot for the week where you couldn't play. So it doesn't change anything at all for you personally, the two hypothetical scenarios are identical. The only difference is that some other people may have some loot a week earlier than you. If that's enough to make you anxious you need to touch some grass.

[Hanayumi]

What are you talking about? Golden Week starts at the end of April.

While not golden week, Jp along with several other counties take a few days up to an entire week off for the week of New Years, its also been mention dozens of time Yoshi P gives devs a week or 2 break during that. Ive worked for a few JP logistics companies, even while being situated in NA we also got off New Years week because a vast majority Asian freight literally halts for it.

[caffe_macchiato]

Regional and Religious holidays should not have an impact at all in determining services meant for world wide audiences

If holidays are meaningless, should we do away with these then?

[Azurarok]

If holidays are meaningless, should we do away with these then?

You know some folks here are going to say Yes because it's content not tailored specifically for their tastes

[Daralii]

You know some folks here are going to say Yes because it's content not tailored specifically for their tastes

They have content?

[Azurarok]

They have content?

I mean they're not really made for me either, but there's clearly some that do enjoy the set pieces.

[Doki]

It's the raid series that has to hold you over for the entirety of 2026 so I mean it isn't like the race is that meaningful.