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

[deadman1204]

Be at peace with things out of your control. You can't do anything about this anyways, why ruin your day by getting pissed off about it?

[Illmaeran]

Be at peace with things out of your control. You can't do anything about this anyways, why ruin your day by getting pissed off about it?

Because being at peace doesn't make for very good news headlines or forum posts. :P

[Golhoy]

I’ll be frank, I’m not chuffed with it. Been playing since 2.0 and every major expansion I hear about a dial back of content in some way or another. I hope it’s well meant (and I was in the past supportive) but square-Enix don’t really seem to be acting in good faith of late (live service titles and NFTS) and while I adore the team behind ffxiv I think it would be foolish to uncritically accept what they say.

[Momo_Kozuki]

No other MMO releases the amount of content this game does in such a consistent schedule. Yoshi-P is also very clear that he doesn't expect people to constantly be subbed either. Go play something else between content patches, its not that big of a deal. Or would you rather they go the swtor route and drop content only once every 2-3 years with 30 minutes of story cutscenes?

Or make the game your second job where you have to play everyday on multi-alts, and missing a week of grinding setting you back like Korean MMORPGs. Then you either find the grind too unbearable but cannot quit the game due to sunk cost fallacy and FOMO and has to spend money to give yourself some respite between grinds, or just quit the game altogether and never look back. Been there, done that.


I don't think people who treat MMORPG as some sort of "main game" where you have to log in every day to stay relevant is actually enjoying it. More like they are too addicted to think otherwise.

[AziraSyuren]

I think there's a difference between not having to play the game and wanting to play the game more if you want. There comes a point where you run out of things to do but still want to keep playing the game.

I have some questions for people who really want to have that one extra dungeon to play and think it adds meaningful variety, but asking for more content that you can waste time on is still entirely different from asking for more content that you have to do. It feels like people are willfully misinterpreting what people actually want.

[Zeldert-Castiel]

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'm at least 97% sure it's because of current global situation and Yoshi-P doesn't want to overwork those who work for FFXIV

and based of your list I'm sure you could finish them all if you play everyday with at least 12 hours a day, not for someone who have busy offline activities

some players would log in and do simple stuff because it's their comfort game (me included)

[Atreides]

Meanwhile 5 month gap coming by. I want to remind you guys release was in december we get 6.1 mid april...
4 Months are okay, 5 months are not. I mean I have other things I can do while waiting for content, Lost Ark and Elden Ring came in the perfect time.

[DPZ2]

Meanwhile 5 month gap coming by. I want to remind you guys release was in december we get 6.1 mid april...
4 Months are okay, 5 months are not. I mean I have other things I can do while waiting for content, Lost Ark and Elden Ring came in the perfect time.

Patch 6.1 is consistent with the release timing for 5.1 and 4.1. The .1 patch is always close to 4 months after expansion release. December 7 to mid-April is 4 months and a week, not 5 months.

Life goes on. There is always a new game being released, always a new series to watch on your favorite streaming site, always friends and family to deal with. Enjoy your time both in-game and out.

[Izar_Chillen]

Meanwhile 5 month gap coming by. I want to remind you guys release was in december we get 6.1 mid april...
4 Months are okay, 5 months are not. I mean I have other things I can do while waiting for content, Lost Ark and Elden Ring came in the perfect time.

5 months of no MSQ for me is a no no. Its a long break to leave the finale and a new sotryline i dont like it. Im keeoping busy with alt job levleing and taking breaks although not currently un subbing

yet:


The beauty of taking control and being the master of your own choices , as an FF14 player , is that you can and should take a sub break I will do if i'm too bored to want to log in.

I wont sub , i see that as a waste of my money . There is soo much content on Steam to play or buy . Its a nice "bonus" that taking breaks from ff14 wont make me fall behind .


I'm stunned more folks dont do this.


But yes 5 months gaps of content drought is painful . Its worse as this is a pay per month access game . In other games (live service) such as The Division 2 its been over a year since proper content came out and its looking like the game is dead in the water (new content looks like a PuBG ripoff f2p trash) so its easy to ignore as you dont need a sub to keep playing. Wow had some very long god awful gaps many many months and they design systems to be FOM grind fests of misery yet players til crave more of something at least.



Business team 3 needs to start making proper daily hubs( dedicated zones). If they did this and designed them well they could then give themselves a breather as players are engrossed for months doing well designed daily's in to mission to rank reputations get s cool unique rewards and unlock new dungeon's or raids/wings after wards.


I do miss the old school wow daily hubs (sunwell)

[Illmaeran]

Patch 6.1 is consistent with the release timing for 5.1 and 4.1. The .1 patch is always close to 4 months after expansion release. December 7 to mid-April is 4 months and a week, not 5 months.

Life goes on. There is always a new game being released, always a new series to watch on your favorite streaming site, always friends and family to deal with. Enjoy your time both in-game and out.

Out of curiosity, when did Pandaemonium drop? Wasn't it after launch and before 6.1? It sucks that we haven't gotten anything at all between launch and the patch coming in a month...