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

[Mika_Zahard]

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.

I bet you're having lots of fun in your other mmo of choice.

What i'll be doing in .1? Starting the relic chain (hopefully), working on tribes/housing, and getting good in the AR doing it daily at least.

Oh and getting thru the shb relic steps in my alts -_-

[Izar_Chillen]

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.

Small independent studio !


How did you miss this ?


I thought it was your job to keep us all informed ?


I am disappoint (ed)

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Guess you got bored in lost ark already?

[Jin-]

Well whatever people reasons , at least its not in the same state that the Steam forums are in.


Good god , what a hell hole that place is. You can feel you brain re-wire itself to decipher the level of stupidity and sheer numbskullery that goes on in their per game forums especially any AAA release.

Or Reddit where everyone forms a circle and **** the next guy off. If you refuse to enter the practice you will casted out

[Conundrum]

'nother thread by Skiros that totally isn't a troll.

I declare this one to now be about Puddingway!!

[Snorky]

'nother thread by Skiros that totally isn't a troll.

I declare this one to now be about Puddingway!!

Puddingway is awesome, it should have been spelled puddinway giving it a southern accent.

Ps.. I posted in a Skiros thread on March 1 2022

[Gemina]

2/10 troll thread.

Make it 1/10.

[XmissionsX]

Personally I don’t care if it’s 3 or 4 months, that’s fine. But yes I also feel there is little content added if u don’t like savage or extreme, and the sub is then pretty steep.

I am a mono class player, and like to maximize my characters, but i do not have the time for a static. So currently I just keep my smn current gear wise. And of course if there is new story content I like to experience this. I finished ew msq after 3 days, lvl’ed my wvr and Ltw from 80 to 90 under a day, got rich and then started farming tomestones.

Since then I only play 3-4 hours a week to get the tomestone after this there is no content to improve my character. I am hoping relic will be available soon as this could be some extra worthwhile content. But the current expected playtime I will need to to improve my char is pretty limited. If u don’t play for glamor at least.

It’s to me clearly implemented this way to keep subscribed as if I unsubscribe I will lose progress and fallback gear wise as I cannot catch up because of the weekly tomestone limit, i personally understand the reasoning but yes the cost a hour is then worse as some other games and hard to justify.

Personally ffxiv is on the backburner because of this and I enjoy other games.

My current expected playtime for ffxiv will be the coming two years.

6.1 05-2022 alliance raid (1) once a week
6.2 09-2022 Pandaemonium 5-8 once a week
6.3 02-2023 alliance raid (1-2) once a week
6.4 05-2023 Pandaemonium 9-12 once a week
6.5 09-2023 alliance raid (1-2-3) once a week

[AnnRam]

People are more than happy to get 1 dungeon, 1 trial and lost their entire time farming "worthless" tomes every 3-4 months, while staying subbed (15 usd per month ). Players doesn't care about content, as long the developers keep doing the same formula.

I wonder if the next relic will require to do Crystal tower x30 times, maybe add a 30% drop item on Sastasha and Tam-Tara.

[Veranolth]

But they already have a proven track record in this game to back that up. The list that comes to mind instantly:

#1 Housing - The demolition timer added post-release was a classic gotcha trap.

#2 Cash Shop - Originally only had plans to add a few items every so often. Now it is 5-10 items every month or more.

#3 Event items - The first events gave items that you could trade / buy / sell at any time. Now every item is untradable and the only way to get it is a year after the event for $.

The dev team is great but there is no denying SE will do anything that they can to milk this game forever.

First off you went on a different tangent and even added more hyperbole with stating they add 5 to 10 items on the cash shop every month which is not even true. Second off, if you're going to prove a point, don't be hyperbolic.

Besides Yoshi P said why they're delaying the patch cycle by 2 more weeks and honestly I don't think it's such a huge deal. I got a house in-game too but I'm one of those that never unsubs and only plays XIV, but for someone that has a house and wants to take a break and unsub I'd imagine if they really care to keep their house they'll take a couple weeks break so that they can come back to stop the demolition timer (auto-demo is after 45 days iirc) and then leave again for a couple more weeks if they want to.