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

[Rithy255]

In terms of "repeatable downtime content" theirs some stuff, but it also is quite lacking in some areas, I feel like the issue is for one how they've treated variant dungeons.. Like why do we only have one so far into 6.4? (we won't be getting the next one until 6.45), not to mention the lacking rewards for the harder versions.

New Deep dungeon? I mean this is likely the biggest "time sink" we have currently from ew, I personally don't really like deep dungeons much, many people don't, rauds/savage? Sure I guess but you get 4 raids every 8 months. Theirs a few other stuff I haven't mentioned in general such as PVP, theirs not really a "massive" lack of content, the issue is it's all too spread out and niche, You could tell people theirs, "older content too!!" but most older content being really out dated and classes feeling really bad to play compared to their ew skills makes that even unappealing. Bozja as much as I'm neutral on it actually had a lot and was appealing to a lot of people, Personally I just want more to do in battle content, why I enjoyed variant dungeons and felt like they were a fresh take on what we had compared to the normal dungeons we had.

I think really their needs to be 2 things changed from what we got
1. Making older content less boring to play, by fixing abilities, easily adds tons of replay value to a lot of old content.
2. More Varity in a single thing, its all well and good to have different types of content, but at the same time it's better to focus on a few things and refine what you can do in that content, theirs no point in adding things like variant dungeons if we're only going to get like 2-3 this expansion. (Prolly never to see them again)

[DragonFlyy]

Still better than WoW with their 6 month - 1 year cycle.

[Moonlite]

Still better than WoW with their 6 month - 1 year cycle.

If you average it out Summer 2024 will mean last year and half was a 6 month patch cycle. 6.3 Jan to 7.0 will be close to or over 18 months. Or if we give them the benefit of the doubt and go back to ARR to Dawntrail they have averaged 5 months a patch.

[raelgun]

Still better than WoW with their 6 month - 1 year cycle.

Just a question, have you seen the patch content and delivery WoW has had since launch of Dragonflight?

[ForsakenRoe]

Just a question, have you seen the patch content and delivery WoW has had since launch of Dragonflight?

Or the 'exactly 77 days between patches' they managed with Legion

People like to just point at Siege lasting 14 months and go 'haha see wow bad', it's like they've been tempered by this game

[Syln]

Yup the 10 years plan was a 3 expansions plan instead of 4/5 all along.

I can see why they widen the gap between expansion but in the other hand i wish they chosed to put 3 more major patch to fill it instead of just spreading content so thin you can barely see it.

[TheNight]

The "10 years plan" for the game is most likely 2 expansions.
-1-2 years of 6.x
-4 years of 7
-the rest of 8

I wouldn't be that pessimistic but it's very likely 7.x will be 3 years and 8.x will be 3 years as well. Which pretty much means the 10 years plan will at best cover a bit of 9.0.

[TheNight]

Still better than WoW with their 6 month - 1 year cycle.

Is that what the simps can only come up with these days? WoW WoW WoW WoW.

[Red-thunder]

Because it's 2 extra weeks and that's not a big deal?

Just want to say it's so hilarious to see the first page full of white knights saying "2 weeks isn't a big deal" merely three years ago and now everyone complains about the patch cycle.

[Red-thunder]

Friggin THIS! Like ok, Im still here trying to get some wanted relics, finish Eureka, grind my jobs and I dont necessarily have the time to play this game everyday 24/7

Good for the people who managed to consume all the current content and finished all their other grinds, but for the majority of us that take our time due to legit reasons, Im all for the current endgame content sparse in FFXIV.

And always funny seeing how the biggest white knights disappear and quit