For those concerned about what other games XIV will be competing with: It'll be competing with them anyway. If they didn't put the patch out at that time, Eorzea would be even more dead than it is now. This means that some people will XIV over Fallout 4 etc, while others won't. But when they are done with it, they will be back. Over time, it should hopefully balance out the number of people running content in the game quite nicely.