Request: Can we go back the old patch model? Content is now spread too thin

[Wolf_Heartnet]

I like the eureka concept a lot, but I do feel like something is going on these days that’s causing me less interest in the game in general... either content is being spread too thin or less effort is being put into meaningful content and rewards. That and I’ve hit a point where I wish players had never asked for old dungeon/raid gear to be made dyable because I feel like the majority of what we get anymore are reskins and it’s a continual letdown patch after patch especially when the new glamour designs aren’t that interesting, are becoming few and far between, or are $18 in the cash shop.

I actually agree with you. Not only am I losing interest but the patches are actually bringing less content. Look at patch 3.3, it has the same type of content as 4.3 but 4.3 literally has half as much content AND its been spread thin over time. The fact that we get the final piece of content so close to the next patch also makes me just want to unsub til the end of the content cycle so I can enjoy it all at once... But im afraid that doing that will just make me lose interest in the game completely. =/

So less content combined with spreading that content too thin is just killing my motivation to play this game.

[Marxam]

Personally, I'm waiting till 4.4 to see if the new armors are decent looking. The only thing keeping me to this game is the addiction factor but even that is waning. After coming back from an extended break only to find less content spread out for four months, yes the patch cycles are now four months, I have to seriously consider if I un-sub till patch or just quit entirely as $15 /month is starting to look like a waste of money. That's telling when 3 coffee's is a better time spent than a months worth of gaming in FFXIV.

[RokkuEkkusu]

I don't care either way. The way the patch cycle is now gives me a little extra room/time to grind a few more Extreme Primal totems over time towards to the upcoming golden mount from getting all the SB Extreme Primal ones.

At the end of the day, I made it a habit not to do too many things at once to the point where I'd burn myself out to the seventh hell.

Heck, I still need to get my Shinryu EX clear, as I already have the rest of the SB EX primals on farm. Having to put with nearly all my parties not even making it to the add phase in the battle is very staggering.

[hynaku]

If they both came out same time. I would still hardly ran ether of them and been crafting still most of the time.

[InkstainedGwyn]

I don't care either way. The way the patch cycle is now gives me a little extra room/time to grind a few more Extreme Primal totems over time towards to the upcoming golden mount from getting all the SB Extreme Primal ones.

At the end of the day, I made it a habit not to do too many things at once to the point where I'd burn myself out to the seventh hell.

Heck, I still need to get my Shinryu EX clear, as I already have the rest of the SB EX primals on farm. Having to put with nearly all my parties not even making it to the add phase in the battle is very staggering.

Correct me if I'm wrong but the primals only come with the MSQ, first patch of the cycle, and the actual base patches (4.3, 4.4, 4.5) haven't been spread out. Therefore you'd still have the same amount of time between 4.3 and 4.4.

[RokkuEkkusu]

Correct me if I'm wrong but the primals only come with the MSQ, first patch of the cycle, and the actual base patches (4.3, 4.4, 4.5) haven't been spread out. Therefore you'd still have the same amount of time between 4.3 and 4.4.

Correct. But I mean is that sometimes, some Extreme Primal strats can change *looks at the recent Byakko 'No Stack' strat.

And I prefer to try and get the upcoming golden mount for Stormblood Extreme Primals before the new Expansion comes out someday. *Points to all the trap-heavy Thordan, Nidhogg, Sephirot, Sophia, and Zurvan "Farm" parties while unsynced.

[polyphonica]

I don't know if its true, but I heard a rumor that Yoshi lost 1/3 of his dev team to the FF VII team because that project is running very behind schedule and needs to catch up. They are also having trouble hiring devs for that game right now so the transfers would make sense. If this is what's really going on, then it would perfectly explain why content is being spread out because the devs are spread too thin.

That really seems like a baseless rumor. The FFVII Remake project doesn't even have a fixed schedule yet, and they've never shown any signs about being worried about it "slipping" before (maybe if they had some firm commitment, but they don't; they also wouldn't choose this director if timeliness were their top priority, nor would they have given up on outsourcing and brought it all in-house). I think this is part of the "all the money FFXIV is being funneled into other games" conspiracy, now evolved into "the staff are being funneled into other games, too."

More likely, Pagos just wasn't ready, and they scheduled the release accordingly. Some people make it sound as though it was sitting in the game all ready to go and they chose to artificially delay it just because, but that's pretty unlikely. The "spreading" of the content doesn't really change the amount of work involved, except for a few common services like localization and QA. The various dev teams themselves will have been assigned their tasks long ago. I think people are reading a lot into this by implying it's a new patch model when relic-related content has traditionally been "off-cycle" content anyway. The difference is just that got it split off from 4.35 into 4.36 this time. The fact that it aligned with the timing of the collaboration event was probably useful for the dev team so that it wouldn't just be this one thing by itself, but it's a bit much to say that it's indicative of a trend at this point.

[Luna-M]

if pagos came out same time as HoH no one would be doing HoH. the point of pagos is not to get a weapon you should have gotten better one via clearing god kefka already. the point of pagos is to prep yourself to get the final form of the relic when that is released. you're splitting the playerbase up too much if you release everything right away.

I think most people that already had most Lv70s (which is lot of players if you are active since HOH was added so late) only did it once.
I havn't done HOH since 1st week cause it same as POTD and serves no purpose to me.

[TaleraRistain]

if pagos came out same time as HoH no one would be doing HoH. the point of pagos is not to get a weapon you should have gotten better one via clearing god kefka already. the point of pagos is to prep yourself to get the final form of the relic when that is released. you're splitting the playerbase up too much if you release everything right away.

The relic was always valuable to those who don't do Savage. It was supposed to be the non-raider progression path. Not everyone does Savage. So yes, when the content is released on time, the point IS to get a weapon you intend to use for more than glamour.

[Luna-M]

And now the relic gonna be obsolete in 5-6 weeks cause of new trial weapon be added.