Is Beastmaster an expansion feature at this point?

[Croweyes]

Legit question.
If an "expansion feature" comes at or near the tail end of an expansion, is it really a feature anymore?

Regardless of the opinions on Limited Jobs, that's not the point.

The point is does this or any other highlighted feature count as such at the END of the expansion.

Added: I would still make the same argument even if it was, cosmic exploration, variant dungeon, or the unfortunately dead content, Island Sanctuary.

ANY content that is a Highlighted feature should not be when an expansion is basically over. It is NOT for "lull periods", small busy work content like Moggle-tome, and event is for lull points.

[Benevolent1]

It's been so long I forgot we were even getting Beastmaster. So, I'd say it's valid to think it's no longer part of the Dawntrail expansion. It's more of just a patch update at some point. I wouldn't be surprised with they release it for 8.0. If they take longer because they want it to be done right, I don't mind waiting. It the premature reveal of it that was probably the wrong call.

[Jeeqbit]

Think of it like this:

If you currently only own Endwalker and have reached 6.55, and only just resubscribe at 7.55, you can't access most of what was advertised to release up through 7.55 without actually first buying Dawntrail. There have been some exceptions occasionally if the subject of the content is in a lower level area, but that varies and sometimes they still require the latest MSQ to be completed.

Also, the end of an expansion is a patch lull, where many may be bored, so having a limited job release then gives people something to play with in that time.

At the end of the day, something has to release in the last patch. And you could make the argument that anything that does "should be at the start". But something has to be at the end of the patch cycle.

[0blivion]

Yeah, it's extremely not happening. We don't even have concept art lmao.

[Croweyes]

Think of it like this:

If you currently only own Endwalker and have reached 6.55, and only just resubscribe at 7.55, you can't access most of what was advertised to release up through 7.55 without actually first buying Dawntrail. There have been some exceptions occasionally if the subject of the content is in a lower level area, but that varies and sometimes they still require the latest MSQ to be completed.

Also, the end of an expansion is a patch lull, where many may be bored, so having a limited job release then gives people something to play with in that time.

At the end of the day, something has to release in the last patch. And you could make the argument that anything that does "should be at the start". But something has to be at the end of the patch cycle.

End of expansion lull cannot be dodge at any point.

If a HIGHLIGHTED expansion feature is held back for the expansions longevity it should be in the middle at best.

Not released as if it was some afterthought.

Activities such as events, like the Mogtome evet, holiday, raids, mount/gear/etc farming, or just play another game. THAT is for lull points.

[Jeeqbit]

Well the solution then would have been for them to simply not tell us we're getting Beastmaster, and release it as a surprise. But their goal there is to increase hype for the expansion generally, including its whole patch cycle and including the final patch.

[Destati]

They released Blue Mage pretty late into Stormblood (4.4 series?) and even then they released it in like the last subpatch (which I remember irritating tf out of me at the time because I think that's when they really started to divide content up like that). So when they announced Beastmaster I figured it was going to be a similar situation. Obviously we're not getting it in the 7.4x series so I'm going to assume we're getting it in the last subpatch of 7.5x.

[Daralii]

They released Blue Mage pretty late into Stormblood (4.4 series?) and even then they released it in like the last subpatch (which I remember irritating tf out of me at the time because I think that's when they really started to divide content up like that). So when they announced Beastmaster I figured it was going to be a similar situation. Obviously we're not getting it in the 7.4x series so I'm going to assume we're getting it in the last subpatch of 7.5x.

At least the patch cadence in SB was about 6 weeks faster. Even if the patch numbers match (BLU was in 4.5), the time actually spent waiting does not.

[Reginald_Cain]

Well the solution then would have been for them to simply not tell us we're getting Beastmaster, and release it as a surprise. But their goal there is to increase hype for the expansion generally, including its whole patch cycle and including the final patch.

Blue mage being a surprise in stormblood was much better than this crap. Never advertise a limited job this early again square. It's a scummy way to get subs for content thats not the content someone wants to play.

[TeresaFortell]

It might just be something they release in 7.5, which would be considered a poor thing to do when it was advertised for so long.