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

[ViinaS]

If they release it early, we get more bugs. That's the tradeoff.

Then work faster/better.
They have more time to put out less content nowadays.

I am sick and tired of all those excuses for this enabling of laziness.

[Veritas-Ancora]

Then work faster/better.
They have more time to put out less content nowadays.

I am sick and tired of all those excuses for this enabling of laziness.

I don't think they're lazy. I just think they're not prioritizing the correct content necessary for keeping people going in an MMO.

The content is there but it's rarely like the relic weapons where you need to invest time and energy into the content to make it spread out over the months.

Hell even the relic weapon was fun but it didn't last as long as I had hoped. And the rest of the weapon is just tome farming to get other weapons, which is a bit of a drag.

Lazy? No. But definitely having a hard time understanding what keeps us busy (and coincidentally away from this forum to complain)

[Stasya]

If they release it early, we get more bugs. That's the tradeoff.

Bro no one is going to notice you from square enix. Even if you make 10000 posts on forum.

Are you Square Enix "community" worker?

[Masha_Awandah]

I don't think they're lazy. I just think they're not prioritizing the correct content necessary for keeping people going in an MMO.

The content is there but it's rarely like the relic weapons where you need to invest time and energy into the content to make it spread out over the months.

Hell even the relic weapon was fun but it didn't last as long as I had hoped. And the rest of the weapon is just tome farming to get other weapons, which is a bit of a drag.

Lazy? No. But definitely having a hard time understanding what keeps us busy (and coincidentally away from this forum to complain)

Of course the relic weapon didn't last long. It was designed to be as quick and effortless as posible. Look at any of the old relics and you'd see that each of them required some heavy grinds for each weapon, baring a few exception like the first Bozja step.

This time we got 1 relic weapon and 20 tome weapons. That's not going to keep people busy.

[Oizen]

I have yet to see evidence of the delay in patch time leading to higher quality content.

[Veritas-Ancora]

I have yet to see evidence of the delay in patch time leading to higher quality content.

Endwalker was delayed and was very impactful, they got rid of all the bugs.

Except for the grapes.

#TalesofLossandFireandGraaaaaaapes

[Rithy255]

Just expect late as possible theirs no such thing as early.

Though please surprise me.

[Jason_Ashford]

If they release it early, we get more bugs. That's the tradeoff.

if they havent finished working on it within a week of release, what are they even doing? I do genuinely think they could release 7.4 a week or two early, because we used to have a new patch every 4 months like clockwork, so we know they absolutely could push for a December 2nd release without compromising quality.

[Daralii]

if they havent finished working on it within a week of release, what are they even doing?

Making other games. It seems like they don't have enough people to make more than one game at a time, so outside of the microtransaction artists, most of the staff are bouncing between projects.

[ForteNightshade]

It may make it difficult for some but the race is over in less than a day isn't it? Wasn't this last one like 13 or 14 hours? Or was it less? I didn't really watch the entire thing.

That was M4S, which was pretty badly undertuned. M8S lasted a little under 29 hours.