New patch cycles? Fun? [community question]

[ItMe]

When you start questioning if patch cycles are fun, it might just be the early signs of a burnout.

That's... a pretty apt observation.

[Arngrim_Greyashe]

Oh man, this guy's back.

[Saix027]

Except if you join now, you will never see either Mor dhona or idyllshire in their incomplete stages. So really it's exactly the same.

That is true but the difference i can see, you participated in Ishgard activly, Mor Dhona and such will change regardless what, it simply feels different for a player, the pseudo illusion of influencing it yourself basically all i say here.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

That is true but the difference i can see, you participated in Ishgard activly, Mor Dhona and such will change regardless what, it simply feels different for a player, the pseudo illusion of influencing it yourself basically all i say here.

That's the nature of an mmo tho.


At least it's not destiny 2 where they straight out removed a bunch of the game.

[Vahlnir]

That's the nature of an mmo tho.


At least it's not destiny 2 where they straight out removed a bunch of the game.

WoW does this too at the end of expansions for the sake of exclusivity. I'd say that it must be an Activision thing, but...Bungie is free of them now, so they don't really have the luxury of being able to use that as an excuse. I love FF XIV partly because they don't really do that much. A title or 2 here and a mount there isn't a big deal, in my opinion.

[DrWho2010]

I am completely at a loss where all the money from 20 million accounts is being utilized, especially when you consider FFXI is now releasing additional and new content, when its "supposed to be dead." Even more so when FFXIV is boating of 20 million accounts, and is completely failing to release all saints wake this year. Not a huge deal on its own, but when you look at the patch cycles, I personally am at a loss.

Money gained from XIV goes into Square Enix's coffers for use in other projects. the only profits that XIV makes that goes 100% back into XIV is from Mogstation sales. Everything else can and is used for non-XIV projects. Tokyo RPG Factory and Studio Istolia (subsidiaries of Square Enix) incurred huge losses for Square Enix due to the failures of I Am Setusna, Lost Sphear, and Oniaki, and the unnamed game that didn't even make it off the ground from Studio Istolia. There was a net loss of about 592 million yen. You can bet that money from XIV is being used to offset those losses.

[FF16Necromancer]

I don't like that content is spaced out in .x1 and .x5 patches sadly as I am too poor to afford the subscription for every month and I'm currently skipping rent to continue playing FF14 lol