Thread: So I'm not seeing how this is them changing things up from 2.0/3.0

Originally Posted by Moonlite

People are cranky or at least seem cranky. The expansions are glorified patches.

Or, you could say the patches are mini expansions.

I mean, we get a LOT of content with each new patch when you compare other MMOs. WoW takes up to 6 months to deliver a new patch (FFXIV does that in half the time), and you wind up with stuff like 6.1 featuring twitter integration, or 7.2 with its, "MORE CONTENT THAN ANY PATCH EVER," which is -1- new quest a week that amounts to, "Go pick up twelve fel boar rumps." Meanwhile when FFXIV launches a patch you get two new dungeons, new hairstyles, new MSQ, new side quests, new raids/trials, and other new stuff on top of that. We've gotten Verminion, Diadem, Stone-Sky-Sea, Palace of the Dead, Aquapolis, new PvP modes, etc...

I do NOT understand people who think FFXIV is not -overachieving- in the MMO market. There is so much content every new patch that each trailer video Square Enix puts out for them lasts between 8-10 minutes with each new thing given anywhere from 10 seconds to a full minute to showcase the preview. Assuming for a moment that even at the maximum minute focused on everything with the minimum 8 minute long trailer, that's still 8 new things over a wide array of interests (PvE, PvP, MSQ, Story, Raiding, etc...)