Everyone is praising the 5.5-month patch cycle!

[AnimalsALot]

More time to take a break in between patches.

OMG two weeks! What will we do?!?!?!

They're human beings not robots, Japan also has a really crazy work culture so I think this is a good thing.

having come from wow myself a couple years back, the absolute entitlement of some people in this community astonishes me. Y'all really dont understand how good you have it with SE. boo hoo 2 more weeks, you'd think there was a new calamity with how much they are complaining.

Still better than WoW

They only increased it to 4, 4.5, 5 5.5 months (+ any holidays) as far as I know. I'm not sure where the rest is coming from.

Oh wait what's that?

I would expect this trend to continue, people will defend it until it gets painfully obvious.

remember on the live letter before 6.1 when they cried what I presume to now be fake tears over increasing the patch time from 3.5 to 4?

Nope, nothing to see here, move along now.

[Oizen]

Look they're too busy losing money making games no one is buying like Forespoken, Foamstars, and apparently FF7R and FFXVI

[Supersnow845]

Can we please let the rumour that rebirth and 16 were bad sellers die

Square enix has disgustingly high expectations for their sales then blames their games that actually do sell for not totally covering for games that didn’t

Like 16 sold at a rate that gave it an attach rate of about 15% to the PS5 playerbase at its release, which is incredibly high. But square enix wanted it to both make a profit and cover for the loss of forspoken which would require like a 30% attach rate which games never get

Any other company would have been over the moon with 16’s sale numbers

[Raven2014]

Can we please let the rumour that rebirth and 16 were bad sellers die

Eh I don't even remember when was the last time a FF game manage to met SE's sale expectation since FFX.

[Rekh]

Eh I don't even remember when was the last time a FF game manage to met SE's sale expectation since FFX.

Correction: Since FFXII.
ffxvi was a boring disaster with a boring cast and boring rpg elements, if it had any to begin with.

Baldur's gate 3 was FFXII in a lot of interesting ways; ffxvi was more like your random god of war. We can see why ffxvi didn't do well.

[Lyndina]

Playing FF16 right now, since it came out on pc last week...and yeah, i agree. May look good and the story has some good points...but after 25 hours im just bored and want to finish it soon. There are no Rpg elements..sure you can choose different "talents" but there really is no depth. Gear is boring, It wants to be a devil may cry in a Final fantasy setting but doesnt reach both either. Since my sub runs out next month...will be my last game from Square for a while. Yoshi P is seriously overrated.

[Rueby]

Wait what am I missing? 5.5 month? What?

[Eyrilona]

Wait what am I missing? 5.5 month? What?

For the moment, just people making up numbers that are higher than previous numbers. Because the patch cycle went from 3 months to 4/4.5, the argument is that this is a trend that will surely go to 5.5 months soon. Or 6 or 7 months, depending on which of their threads you read. It only sounds credible because the increase was recent, so the change in patch cycle length feels like it moved on a steep slope in the recent past. It is really no different though than if, for example, you had your birthday last week, so this week you are one year older than you were a week ago, and now someone is extrapolating this as a trend that you are going to be another year older by next week, and two years older the week after that.

[lolnotacat]

For the moment, just people making up numbers that are higher than previous numbers. Because the patch cycle went from 3 months to 4/4.5, the argument is that this is a trend that will surely go to 5.5 months soon. Or 6 or 7 months, depending on which of their threads you read. It only sounds credible because the increase was recent, so the change in patch cycle length feels like it moved on a steep slope in the recent past. It is really no different though than if, for example, you had your birthday last week, so this week you are one year older than you were a week ago, and now someone is extrapolating this as a trend that you are going to be another year older by next week, and two years older the week after that.

[Saraide]

Nope, nothing to see here, move along now.

Ok, moving on.