Patch 8.0 - How long is too long to wait?

[Haru304]

After my disappointment for Dawntrail, they can take an extra year if it means the end product will be a huge hit. I'm in no rush.

[Miohazuki]

With rumors about the release date being discussed, how long is too long for all of you to wait for 8.0? Some people are saying it will be 2.5 years from 7.0 release and others are saying 3 years.

For me, if patch 7.5 lands in April of 2026 and then they wait until summer of 2027, that’s my red line. They must get 8.0 out on or before December of 2026 or there will be mass “retirements” in my opinion.

There already is .none of my friend is playing currently .my own 6 month sub is expiring on 20 Jan and I won't be renewing it till next expansion comes .

Any delay above 2 years is a lazy part on development team side .I am not going to reward laziness with keeping my sub on .

[Hyperia]

There already is .none of my friend is playing currently .my own 6 month sub is expiring on 20 Jan and I won't be renewing it till next expansion comes .

Any delay above 2 years is a lazy part on development team side .I am not going to reward laziness with keeping my sub on .

I think a lot will take a break until 8.0 unless your doing savage or ultimate. The free login campaign will allow most people to catch up and then wait.

There are rumors that 7.5 MSQ will be something special, we will see but with no new OC or variant dungeons until summer of 2026, it’s going to be a long dead period from now till then.

[TwiceDamned]

Given what I think is probably going to happen (the eighth Calamity -- to provide for an MSQ reset), who knows?

[lievaordiea]

With rumors about the release date being discussed, how long is too long for all of you to wait for 8.0? Some people are saying it will be 2.5 years from 7.0 release and others are saying 3 years.

For me, if patch 7.5 lands in April of 2026 and then they wait until summer of 2027, that’s my red line. They must get 8.0 out on or before December of 2026 or there will be mass “retirements” in my opinion.

they've been hinting at something being released fast after tokyo fanfest
folks have guessed its 7.6 which would be unusual but stands to reason.
currently im unsure how they could finish the story in one patch. its all over the place

so i doubt its the expac. it would be rediculous. they must release the date if its an expac during the UK fanfest at least. so folks can book the time off work.

NGL though it already feels like 4yrs have passed since DT.

[TwiceDamned]

I really think the cards are beginning to stack up that we are looking at an Eighth Calamity.

Rumors of a "special" 7.5, something being released fast after Tokyo, the need to rework the MSQ possibly again...

[lievaordiea]

I really think the cards are beginning to stack up that we are looking at an Eighth Calamity.

Rumors of a "special" 7.5, something being released fast after Tokyo, the need to rework the MSQ possibly again...

i just don't see how they can. they might say 8.0 will the the final before the calamity.
but they took the servers offline for 3yrs prior to the ARR launch. it would be stupid to do so again. they make money on FFXIV they do not loose it so .. its silly to stop. they were not making money on it prior to ARR so it made sense to stop it.

to do it they would need to nuke it completely and reopen the new game in the normal schedule of an expac release.

[TwiceDamned]

I don't believe this Calamity will include a server takedown of more than a few days (unless they actually are considering letting it all play out with inferior server architecture and dealing with the "DDoS" (if it's this and not a DDoS outfit) by upgrading the server tech during a longer stopdown for 8.0).

[Aidorouge]

i just don't see how they can. they might say 8.0 will the the final before the calamity.
but they took the servers offline for 3yrs prior to the ARR launch. it would be stupid to do so again. they make money on FFXIV they do not loose it so .. its silly to stop. they were not making money on it prior to ARR so it made sense to stop it.

to do it they would need to nuke it completely and reopen the new game in the normal schedule of an expac release.

And that's assuming most of us come back once the dust settles from another Calamity.

Personally I'm not keen on some big "reset" that undoes tons of progress and renders every piece of the story before it pointless (as ended up being the case with so much of 1.0's lore and world), or people's general obsession with seeing the Warrior of Light "lose everything" as if there would be anything worth fighting for at that point if the whole world gets destroyed and nigh-every NPC we know ends up dead or MIA while we get massively de-powered.

[Lunaxia]

I don't believe this Calamity will include a server takedown of more than a few days (unless they actually are considering letting it all play out with inferior server architecture and dealing with the "DDoS" (if it's this and not a DDoS outfit) by upgrading the server tech during a longer stopdown for 8.0).

It's unlikely that they're going to do a technical overhaul at this point. If we were a few more years in and they were circling the drain, maybe, but I think they're going to play some other cards first.

I like the idea of a calamity from a narrative standpoint, though. The entire story has grown so insanely stagnant that outside of a major shake-up, I don't see much changing in the game's long term prospects. The players are bored.