January 2024, then what? October 2024? 10 months?

[Deceptus]

I find it hilarious that WoW got sh!t for their last patch cycle in Mist of Pandaria (14 Monts) Warlords of Draenor, Legion (Rightfully so) and yet FFXIV folks are fine with a 6 month + wait between last patch and the next expansion.

[Raikai]

I find it hilarious that WoW got sh!t for their last patch cycle in Mist of Pandaria (14 Monts) Warlords of Draenor, Legion (Rightfully so) and yet FFXIV folks are fine with a 6 month + wait between last patch and the next expansion.

Coming from WoW myself, I'm happy with the wait times we have here. There, just nowadays with Dragonflight they kind of matched XIV's pace with a content patch/sub-patch roughly every 2 months. Still, from Shadowlands' last content patch to Dragonflight launch it was almost one year of wait iirc, a lot longer than the estimated time for a Summer Dawntrail release.

I think in WoW there's the benefit of a PTR (or Beta during pre-xpac wait times) up almost all the time with stuff to datamine/speculate, class changes to theorycraft/complain/praise, etc, although you have to be super careful not to spoil story elements. In XIV we basically just have what's given in interviews, PLL or Fanfests.

[MikkoAkure]

This is funny. Fall became December for EW.

They're going to delay all the way until the end, and then take an extra month anyways.

Is this going to be like the thread with that person who thought all of December is winter all over again?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Is this going to be like the thread with that person who thought all of December is winter all over again?

Its all the same person.

[ChonkGoblinSuprem]

Is this going to be like the thread with that person who thought all of December is winter all over again?

Words don’t have meanings anymore. It’s all just vibes.

[AnnRam]

Why you keep comparing wow with FFXIV? it has nothing to do.
One game from 20 years ago has a fully open world map with pvp/ invasions etc while the other has small hubs with no open world and 0 pvp besides the non rewarding Frontlines mode

[Striker44]

Why you keep comparing wow with FFXIV? it has nothing to do.
One game from 20 years ago has a fully open world map with pvp/ invasions etc while the other has small hubs with no open world and 0 pvp besides the non rewarding Frontlines mode

A.) It's not so much a comparison as relating past experience. Some people here are acting as if the time between patches is unbelievable and unprecedented (and adding the typical pathetic exaggerations to boot), while others are simply pointing out it's none of that, and we remember playing other games in bygone days where the patch schedule was significantly longer.

B.) If you're going to make a comparison (ironic given the first part of your comment), at least make an accurate one. World PvP in WoW has been dead since before TBC, and its corpse pummeled into the ground when "sharding" became a thing. The comment about you personally finding something non-rewarding somehow acting as if it's some kind of objective fact also just makes the entire commentary look egotistical and self-centered.

[sindriiisgaming]

CBU3 seems really determined to drag this one out.

Pray enjoy the 1-hour finale to the 6.x story over 9-10 months.

do you genuinly just flood the forums with the same posts over and over to annoy people? every thread u post is the same. no feedback. no advise nothing. just doom doom doom. posting these cookie cutter threads takes away from valuable discussion of actual improvements in the forums because these trash-fire ones get bumped instead from there click/rage bait titles
i genuinly dont think u want this game to get better, because if u did ud actually be engaging in it instead of constantly attacking CBU3
OP thread history FTIMC https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...chid=128036013

[BRVV]

Goal will be early June probably and i guess we will see a swift mid-August release.

We were fighting a war with the Garleans in Stormblood patches, then suddenly we were in The First.

Maybe Warrior of Light just wants a holiday finally and to retire as a pirate charging a ruby tithe to anyone who comes near.

With the trailer it seem Krile is just like "Gramps was in golden city!? :O Let's go there!" If they do it that blatantly they might aswell break the 4th wall and go "let's go there, these are the new expac zones".

[Connor]

It’s not the long wait between patches that annoys me, it’s that every patch is designed to have a shelf-life of like 1 week but then there’s 6 months of just nothing. Content should be designed to last longer so the long waits don’t feel as painful.