How is anyone fine with the 4-month patch delivery schedule?

[Badmethod]

What are players who aren't going to do Ultimate do for four months in 6.1?

1. Do the alliance raid, which probably takes 1-2 hours to complete on day 1.

2. Do the Tataru and Hildebrand quests which take 2 hours judging by previous instances.

3. Do the new extreme trial which takes like 2-4 hours to clear.

4. Waste 5 mins every day on beast tribes, and waste 3 mins every week on custom delivery.

Congratulations that's all you have for 4 months. $60 in subscription fees. That's even less than what you get from the typical AAA single player title.

With this little content they should be accelerating patch delivery, not slowing it down.

Wow! There's so much more to this game than you have mentioned and people are doing those things on top of what you've said above. Dig around and see for yourself. It's not just about the progression goals of the entitled hehe.

[Aglaica]

It doesnt bug me at all, but I got years of stuff to catch up on. heck I havent even finished normal mode Asphodelas yet.

[Poporito_Popoto]

It doesnt bug me at all, but I got years of stuff to catch up on. heck I havent even finished normal mode Asphodelas yet.

Not only have I not started the raid, I haven't even unlocked the expert roulettes from this or the previous expansion.

I currently live in the Gold Saucer, and that makes me happy.

[Catwho]

I have been playing since 1.0 and 2.0 launch and I, too, still have entire areas of this game that I have not fully tapped into. Never quite got into PVP. Never deep dived into Chocobo Racing, breeding, etc. Still have a crap ton of rare fish to catch.

4 months in between patches is perfectly fine, considering the game has grown 500% in size since launch and QA is an additive process.

[Eriane_Elis]

I think they need to divide their 4 month patch cycle into two months. The patches are pretty big but they don't last that long for most people and dividing it to 2 months but smaller releases (half size) would be better since there wouldn't be this gargantuan wait. The only thing keeping people who has caught up subbed for 4 months is the housing system lol There's a lot of things to do but everything including sidequests can all be done within a reasonable amount of time. Replay factor is subjective so for me, I don't care to replay a dungeon more than once unless I absolutely have to. If they did away with dungeons I would be more than happy but that's my opinion on it. Trials are different but once you mastered it, it gets boring. So what do you do for 4 months? Grind for better gear each week until it gets replaced right after you get the full set? Meh, been there, done that. There's PotD/HoH but even those get stale after a while since there are no dynamic elements to them. But, I'm a minority in this so my opinions should weigh very little since the majority don't come close to what I have completed. Thankfully, there's a million and one other games to play while waiting.

[Poporito_Popoto]

The first thing I did when I got the lvl 89 gear was to glam over it, just like I've done with other AF gear.

As I level other classes from 81-90 I don't even equip the leveling gear.

Not sure why it's important enough to throw tantrums over.

[KizuyaKatogami]

The first thing I did when I got the lvl 89 gear was to glam over it, just like I've done with other AF gear.

As I level other classes from 81-90 I don't even equip the leveling gear.

Not sure why it's important enough to throw tantrums over.

No ones throwing a tantrum it’s called giving criticism. They could have used this as an opportunity to give us a dyable version of a previous set that hasn’t been dyable yet. It’s just one of many examples of a loss in content. Also just because you play like that doesn’t mean everyone does.

[NekiUno]

It is kinda of funny that I am reading this right now but if you are worried so much about the patch schedule. Maybe you should apply to work at Square Enix to help them out (They are actually hiring right now) to speed up the process. We have to remember that FFXIV is doing this with less funds than WoW and WoW has more personnel as well than SQex, heck even Yoshi P said that he would love to have the funds that WoW has.

I am glad for the four-month schedule, and you are not tie into staying on FFXIV, play other games, go on Discord to meet people or even go outside and enjoy life.

[DPZ2]

It is kinda of funny that I am reading this right now but if you are worried so much about the patch schedule. Maybe you should apply to work at Square Enix to help them out (They are actually hiring right now) to speed up the process. We have to remember that FFXIV is doing this with less funds than WoW and WoW has more personnel as well than SQex, heck even Yoshi P said that he would love to have the funds that WoW has.

I am glad for the four-month schedule, and you are not tie into staying on FFXIV, play other games, go on Discord to meet people or even go outside and enjoy life.

Thumbs up.

Also, please remember that you have to be able to read and write Japanese as well as speak it in order to work for Square Enix in Japan as a developer. The research I've done indicates it can take anywhere from 1000 to 4000 hours of study to become fluent [speak/read/write] enough with Japanese to work there, if you're starting from scratch. I myself only have 950 to 3950 hours left to go!

[IdowhatIwant]

So idk if you know this, but EW just release, so we are planning to get a lot of stuff in the future patches. We are already on the roadmap set to get more ultimates that ShB. I'd love to be in your shoes where I could just simply wave away a global pandemic, alas, I cannot. And yes, there have been cuts on some things, HOWEVER, and you miss this but HOWEVER, it's to add items elsewhere. If you have a core group of devs right, and you want to add in something new, they cannot also be working on something else, or you get two bad products. Yes they have cut the total number of dungeons, but who actually cares? And if a cut dungeon leads to new content then good riddance.

Cuts started before Covid, lack of content started before Covid. People tend to forget this when they use covid as an excuse for the developers.

How are we getting less than normal? Pretty sure we got exactly the same amount of dungeons and trials we got last expansion on release. In fact, this expansion had hours of more MSQ I believe? More of it being cinematic and voiced over than before?

Truth be told the development team has more than doubled since ARR. And we still receive less content than we did before Stormblood. Cut dungeons were the reasoning for them to add more side content, but what did they really add for side content over all? Stormblood we got heaven on high, a copy paste of deep dungeon. We got Eureka, which is a couple of zones to do fates, and a 40 main raid. We lost half the dungeons we normally get in post game content we did not get any hildabrand quest line, we barely got any side quest lines at all. Oh and a monster hunter trial which is pretty garbage over all due to the games latency issues. Shadow bringers we get even less dungeons, no copy paste of deep dungeon, no hildabrand, and Bazja which again was less zones to do fates, and 2 40 man dungeons on a weird spawn timer that had 0 difficulty designed into them and a 24 man normal / savage. I think ShB was when I really noticed how little content there was as I ran my single dungeon expert roulette for my tome stones.

We have to remember that FFXIV is doing this with less funds than WoW and WoW has more personnel as well than SQex, heck even Yoshi P said that he would love to have the funds that WoW has.

I am not sure how many people work on WoW, but FF I believe had about 500 - 600 people working on Shadow Bringers and around 200-300 that worked on ARR from what Yoshi P has said. As far as funds go, it's hard to really to say for all we know Yoshi P may actually have more funds than Blizzard provides WoW.