Is Stormblood an expansion or a Major update?

[Bigcat9715]

Just double checking. Up to this point, I've been thinking it's an expansion, but a friend of mine is saying it's just a major update. Which is it?

[bounddreamer]

It's an expansion.

[Dumbledoremd]

Serious question or you a troll ?

[Sigmar_Heldenhammer]

It's an expansion that brings with it major updates.
Everyone's a winner.

[Bigcat9715]

It's an expansion.

Thank you

Serious question or you a troll ?

It was serious question. I guess in his mind he thought it was going to be like the 2.4 patch.

[Riardon]

It's both. Stormblood = version 4.0 of the game = called Expansion because it is a big update with loads of content = Major Update
3.4 3.5 are smaller updates called Patches (they also have new content but not as much as an expansion.)

[Ametrine]

It's an expansion. Also worth adding that despite being a patch, you will have to buy it the same as with Heavensward, and will get all 4.0 related content with your sub from then on.

[Indiction]

It's somewhat classifies as both. Stormblood is going to be an expansion, but an expansion is really only a major (major) update. The only differentiation between the terms 'expansion' and 'major update' are that, major updates are not something you have to buy/pay for here at FFXIV. Expansions however, make you pay for the content you're receiving, but it brings a lot more with it than a simple major update would.

[Knahli]

It was serious question. I guess in his mind he thought it was going to be like the 2.4 patch.

Some people tried to equate Heavensward to a "big patch" and saying it wasn't deserving of being called an "expansion" so he likely thought that your post was a passive-aggressive reference to the same thing.

[Mugiawara]