Creative Studio 3 is working on multiple projects at once.

[Striker44]

Quick reminder that they also added ~1,5months to the patch cycle by now. Imagine if they invested that time into xiv instead.
People can cope all they want, but this low effort game is in maintenance mode.

If you want to be taken seriously, post seriously. A game that literally just had an entire 60+ hour expansion released is the polar opposite of "maintenance mode" - which in case you're just using buzzwords you read somewhere and have no idea what they actually mean, is when a game has nothing more being added to it aside from minor QoL adjustments. Patch cycles taking a month longer than they used to means absolutely squat.

[Jeeqbit]

If you want to be taken seriously, post seriously. A game that literally just had an entire 60+ hour expansion released is the polar opposite of "maintenance mode" - which in case you're just using buzzwords you read somewhere and have no idea what they actually mean, is when a game has nothing more being added to it aside from minor QoL adjustments. Patch cycles taking a month longer than they used to means absolutely squat.

Also, a game in maintenance mode is more like FF11, where for many years it just got fixes and "bonus EXP" events that might compare to our moogle events and bonus MGP events, with no modernization of the game to compete with other MMORPGs.

But we get so, so much more than that in FF14. If that "more" doesn't interest certain people, it doesn't mean it's in maintenance mode. I'm still farming a lot of the stuff we got with the expansion and they are modernizing this game with things like the graphics update, which can't be said of FF11 for example.