Quote Originally Posted by AstreaLove View Post
They really need to frontload
Of course, development takes time (unless you'd like them to use AI which is very controversial in this community). You could just subscribe when the content you want comes out, then from your perspective it will feel frontloaded.

For example, if people who want Field Operations resubscribe at the .25 patch always, then they could treat that as the start of the expansion for them and do the MSQ then as well.

They could perhaps try what they did in 4.55 and 5.55. In those patches, they developed the respective final Field Operation areas (Hydatos and Zadnor respectively). If instead they develop the 8.0 field operation for 7.55 but delay it until 8.0, then it would feel frontloaded perhaps.
the casual & midcore content, after all that is the vast majority of the playerbase.
We should be clear that it's frontloaded with loads of casual stuff: Dungeons, trials, normal raids, leveling all jobs (and its mount), new Triple Triad cards and minions to collect, beast tribes, custom deliveries, PvP Series and their rewards, an alliance raid, the usual crafting/gathering cycle to make gear/food/pots/glam for people, new housing furniture, glam to farm, loads of sidequests (including role/collectable quests).

And it depends how casual you mean because for someone extremely casual, they will barely get through all of that, if they even get through the MSQ in the first place. As such, I think you just mean the stuff a lot of us would regard as midcore (Field Operations).
For instance what happened with the Eureka-like zone that was supposed to come?
Always has been released at the .25 patch. So probably around June 2025.

For what it's worth, they seemed to indicate they are working on 7.3 at the moment, so 7.2 is most likely just being bug tested for several months.