Disappointed in new release date.

[NorthernLadMSP]

Why do people keep bringing this up as an argument to invalidate people's valid complaints? It comes off as intentional cheap emotional manipulation on your part.

Simple. They are using it to vilify anyone who is (or was) upset about the news.

[Bryan_Weary1]

Simple. They are using it to vilify anyone who is (or was) upset about the news.

Or...and hear me out here...it's an actual valid point. This is one of the few dev teams that still gives a rip about their players and the lead actually cares about his audience(not to mention the game itself and those that work under him). I know it's hard to understand that it's possible that one person can care, not just for themselves, but for the people they provide a product for, but it is still a thing.

[IzVale]

TLDR: Don't.

Seriously how long has the video game industry been around and how many games get pushed back every single year?

Especially, there is a reason why the saying "don't play on patch day" exists.
Also considering the servers being overloaded on release, the long butt waiting times to get in AND the "Hawt dang, I got disconnected. Back to the hour long Q.." - nah, just nah. Not worth the stress x.x

[Silpher]

This must be alot of people's first mmo launch ever. I mean why they would take off week 1 of an MMO is beyond me considering basically every mmo ever released has had a sketchy release week.
If you did take off now you know, next time wait a week or 2 or take off the third week.

Personally it's sad it's getting delayed but I can immensely respect Yoshida for how he did it and why. I'd also rather see the final expansion of this storyline done right, 1-2 week delay means nothing.

[Vahlnir]

This must be alot of people's first mmo launch ever. I mean why they would take off week 1 of an MMO is beyond me considering basically every mmo ever released has had a sketchy release week.
If you did take off now you know, next time wait a week or 2 or take off the third week.

Personally it's sad it's getting delayed but I can immensely respect Yoshida for how he did it and why. I'd also rather see the final expansion of this storyline done right, 1-2 week delay means nothing.

In fairness, SE has been pretty decent when it comes to releasing FF XIV's expansions. This is the first time (as far I can remember at least) they have officially announced the release date for an expansion for this game and didn't quite meet it. Some may say "well, they've delayed stuff before because <insert random reason here>!" in regards to patch content, but that's not really what I'm talking about. They set an official release date for Endwalker. They didn't quite follow through this time, which is a first. But they were very open about it so as irritated as I might have been at the time and others continue to be, I respect them even more for delaying it to make some finishing touches, even if some of them weren't that important in the bigger picture. This just gives me more time to catch up on my gaming backlog I guess. lol