November? really?

[adn]

As I mentioned earlier, failure to build up any hype is a contributor to this. There was no mention of primals or details on relics, or really anything that resembles giving us something to "please look forward" for.

You can expect a trailer like with every other content patch for the sake of building up hype. These live letters are sneak previews of bits of in-development content, not a full patch preview. Only a couple thousand people watch these live letters, as opposed to the hundreds of thousands that watch the official patch previews they do. We KNOW new story quests, relics, Vanu Vanu dailies and other stuff are coming, all of which are likely to be teased in an official 3.1 trailer.

I mean look at the alternative: They could have revealed absolutely nothing until the official trailer.

[Pibz]

The whole "The dev team went on vacation for a month" is really a poor excuse for such a huge company as SE is, i mean they should know better, you don't just send your whole team on vacation for *however long* (irrelevant) at the same time and halt development, wtf? Did they all go on some FFXIV 18th floor roadtrip team vacation?

[Asmodai]

If anything, we're very spoiled with how much we get in the patches (how many games would give you something like Gold Saucer in a patch?), some of them are near-expansion-quality in themselves. I have no issues with lack of content and I play a lot. I was told by someone the other day about how in WoW you're lucky to get a patch of FFXIV quality ever. Everything is expac except bug fixes and balancing, so I'm told..

Thats because wow had the content in from the start. In ffxiv im currently farming the same two instances for eso. Thats boring, then when the patch hits what are they going to do put in two more reskinned dungeons?

[Khemorex]

The whole "The dev team went on vacation for a month" is really a poor excuse for such a huge company as SE is, i mean they should know better, you don't just send your whole team on vacation for a whole month at the same time and halt development, wtf? Did they all go on some FFXIV 18th floor roadtrip team vacation?

why not ? you can still go play something else if ur that bored and come bk for 3.1 no one is forcing you to play and pay a subcription.

[Hyrist]

I'm not that disappointed about the wait, more worried that it will do damage to the community.

No different than any other patch cycle of an MMO. We've actually been going at a fairly break-neck pace since release. Something had to give, and I'm glad the developers got a reprieve.

[Xairos]

Its funny how Opinion (in this sphere of the internet) quickly becomes fact:

Vacation = 2 month vacation that delayed the patch by 5 months
Vacation = 2 week vacation that in turn pushed back the patch by 3 weeks for when it might have been released.
Sidecontent = Nothing worth doing because 210 (true 210) comes from Savage
RNG = Our savior from the grind of Savage
RNG = Our demise as this will become an eastern MMO where We play the same thing over and over again looking for decent stats on gear *coughDiablo3cough*
FFXIV Dev Team = A huge dev team with limitless resources since the game is doing okay
FFXIV Dev Team = A small, plucky dev team that rebuilt a dying game and are just now starting to see a profit.
*saving grace for the game* = Pretty much anything that hasnt come out yet (i.e. Relic will save this game for me...for a while... unless it's grindy.... I think....)

Pick one of the opinions stated above and run with it as if it is a scientific fact. Welcome to the Forums.

[Chewy2nd]

No different than any other patch cycle of an MMO. We've actually been going at a fairly break-neck pace since release. Something had to give, and I'm glad the developers got a reprieve.

That's true, a lot of people were really wowed by how we got the three patches in Jan, Feb and March followed by Heavensward just a few months later, I did at that point get worried that they were gonna burn the team out. Glad they got some vacation time in, it will make sure they're refreshed.

In response to others, I don't think the whole team went on vaction all at once, its more likely they worked at a slower pace for a month or so as different people went on vacation. I hope it is all planned out better for 4.0.

[DragonHunterG]

im actually cool with this completely. in fact, most of the time i feel they release too much in too little time or breaks in between that i can't even see or do everything. so this will be nice.

[LaylaTsarra]

(To steal a line from a favorite character.) So there's the answer to your question. Being happy does not require the game of being perfect. It simply needs to be good enough to worry about what the person next to you would do to it. And spending time on the forums does not have to take away from your game time, it can be done in any other available downtime.

I'm hitting nodes with my miner and botanist as I read this. It's called multi-tasking.

[Joshyuchiha]

One month delay sure...

Hw release was 21.06 and when SE calls a month for the release its never at the beginning. Its always mid or end of the month.

21.06-mid/late november = 5 months

They already confirmed that it'll be in the first 10 days of November....