No content for 1 year :)

[Zarkovitch]

You see me take the W place. Meanwhile the other players will get L ratio on ff14 fall guys.

[ZephyrMenodora]

This isn't really delayed. They're getting back to their normal expansion schedule. Endwalker was the outlier. It's usually late spring/early summer.

Patch 2.0 | Release Date: August 27, 2013
Patch 3.0 | Release Date: June 23, 2015 (Less than 2 years)
Patch 4.0 | Release Date: June 20, 2017 (2 years)
Patch 5.0 | Release Date: July 2, 2019 (2 years)
Patch 6.0 | Release Date: December 7, 2021 (2 years and 5 months)
Patch 7.0 | Release Date: Summer 2024 (2 years and X months)

So, while the summer months was their prior release dates, between Endwalker and 7.0 there is an entire extra year of waiting compared to 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0.

[TaleraRistain]

Patch 2.0 | Release Date: August 27, 2013
Patch 3.0 | Release Date: June 23, 2015 (Less than 2 years)
Patch 4.0 | Release Date: June 20, 2017 (2 years)
Patch 5.0 | Release Date: July 2, 2019 (2 years)
Patch 6.0 | Release Date: December 7, 2021 (2 years and 5 months)
Patch 7.0 | Release Date: Summer 2024 (2 years and X months)

So, while the summer months was their prior release dates, between Endwalker and 7.0 there is an entire extra year of waiting compared to 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0.

Necessary evil really. Covid and Endwalker threw things out of whack. If they had tried to release this past summer, I don't think it would have gone well. And a winter release would keep us in the bad timeline and not get things back to the normal summer release schedule.

[ZephyrMenodora]

Necessary evil really. Covid and Endwalker threw things out of whack. If they had tried to release this past summer, I don't think it would have gone well. And a winter release would keep us in the bad timeline and not get things back to the normal summer release schedule.

I agree that a summer 2023 release would probably have resulted in a flimsy expansion given 6.0's release date, but I am disappointed that 2 and a half years rather than 2 years being the new normal. I hope we have a return to form for 8.0 and that is released Summer 2026. Else, we'll just have content spread out for longer periods of time like was felt the current era.

[TaleraRistain]

I agree that a summer 2023 release would probably have resulted in a flimsy expansion given 6.0's release date, but I am disappointed that 2 and a half years rather than 2 years being the new normal. I hope we have a return to form for 8.0 and that is released Summer 2026. Else, we'll just have content spread out for longer periods of time like was felt the current era.

I think it should be. The fact they're trying to get things back on a summer release speaks to that. I've always expected summer 2024 and once they confirmed Fan Fest dates that pretty much cemented it.

[Rolder50]

MSQ Pt1(About as much as normal patch) & Pt2 (Prologue for expansion)
Trial/Ex
Varient/Criterion
24m
Allied Tribe
Tataru
Hildi
Additional Trial (Asura)
Relic Weapons
Relic Craft/Gather
Crossover Fall Guys
Crossover FFXVI (Yoshi P in talks with Yoshi P, info later this year, but are shooting sometime before 7.0)
Think thats about it, a healthy chunk of content but yeah not enough to last like 3/4 of the year for most folks, all good plenty of great games out this an next year.

Something to consider is that most of the things listen here won't even last a day. Man, if only they didn't make the relic weapon a total joke and scrap exploratory content!

[AwesomeJr44]

I agree that a summer 2023 release would probably have resulted in a flimsy expansion given 6.0's release date, but I am disappointed that 2 and a half years rather than 2 years being the new normal. I hope we have a return to form for 8.0 and that is released Summer 2026. Else, we'll just have content spread out for longer periods of time like was felt the current era.

You know, with how apathetic people were when SE increased the length of a patch while not including more content to make up for it, I wouldn't be surprised if 2.5 years per expansion became the new standard. After all, a good portion of the playerbase won't care, so why not do something that saves SE effort and money as the cost of the playerbase?

Maybe in a few expansions they'll increase it to 3 years and we'll get the same people trying to defend it by saying "it's only half a year more than normal".

[Koros]

You know, with how apathetic people were when SE increased the length of a patch while not including more content to make up for it, I wouldn't be surprised if 2.5 years per expansion became the new standard. After all, a good portion of the playerbase won't care, so why not do something that saves SE effort and money as the cost of the playerbase?

Maybe in a few expansions they'll increase it to 3 years and we'll get the same people trying to defend it by saying "it's only half a year more than normal".

ye that's called a slippery slope fallacy. every time we slip down, and u mention it, it's the slippery slope fallacy. we will keep sliding down but don't you dare mention it because it's a fallacy fallacy fallacy fallacy fallacy

[Mansion]

I don't know why, I understood when they announced the extra two weeks per patch that this was in order to make 6.5 shorter by those extra weeks, so they would be releasing 7.0 in mid to late spring.
Well, I guess it gives the staff a bit more time to breathe.

Now that I'm only back every 45 days to keep my house, I don't mind that much as I play whatever came out during my absence and I have dropped savage raiding, but I do feel sympathy for anyone playing daily until 7.0, especially as .5 patches usually aren't that great content-wise.

[TheNight]

I don't know why, I understood when they announced the extra two weeks per patch that this was in order to make 6.5 shorter by those extra weeks, so they would be releasing 7.0 in mid to late spring.
Well, I guess it gives the staff a bit more time to breathe.

Now that I'm only back every 45 days to keep my house, I don't mind that much as I play whatever came out during my absence and I have dropped savage raiding, but I do feel sympathy for anyone playing daily until 7.0, especially as .5 patches usually aren't that great content-wise.

It's an extra 4.5 weeks a patch. And 6.5 to 7.0 would be the longest drought ever.