Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
I agree, but they did it with Dawntrail. Instead of the standard 5 months between .5 and expansion release, we had something like 9 months to wait for Dawntrail, just a little longer than Endwalker which was understandably delayed due to the effects of Covid. They've done this twice now, so instead of the wait being 9 months why not a whole 14 months at that point?

I hope they don't do that but they seem to really like June-August as a release period. If they simply replicate the 9 months again it should be around February 2027.
It will not be in summer 2027, absolutely not, like almost zero percent.
The only reason DT was allowed to have such a gap was because the trust was still there and even that patience of the players was getting extremely thin at the end of the EW patches.
It was in at a time when they were still high on their success and kind of arrogant. They have been completely humbled since then.

Right now they even do things like glamour unlock, something they outright denied in the past and it's obvious that they see the dwindling player numbers and are not happy with that and glamour unlock according to the translation on Discord from Famitsu was originally planned to be announced at Fanfest, another sign of how they do realize they have to deliver.
(And despite some people on reddit thinking otherwise, he said in the last Famitsu interview that the glamour restrictions weren't technical in nature and it was really him alone who prevented that and still would have preferred to keep it locked)

Yoshida also outright said that things will go fast after the japanese fanfest and that was even more unambiguous in japanese actually.
December 2026 or beginning 2027 is way more realistic and even that is a long wait time already given we only get one patch that year.

Like at this point and with all that is happening, someone would need to be an absolute doomer to realistically think that they will wait until summer 2027.