Need for Occult Crescent in 7.2, not 7.25

[Veritas-Ancora]

Casual content is severely lacking in this expansion. Most people (who wanted to) cap all their levels to 100 have already done so by now.

The appeal here is that we need this content now, not later. Some critics say delay it.
Delaying the casual content just because the next four savage tiers are coming out isn't a particularly great idea. We're losing the player base and we need some casual content to keep busy.

Savage players are going to play regardless, but maintaining the casual player is crucial right now. Waiting any longer (ie pushing it back to April) is going to further thin out the game. Chaotic Alliance came out in December, and we're in a draught to keep the non-raiders busy.

I'm very hopeful that the Occult Crescent is available Day 1 on Patch 7.2 content.

[Tint]

I think if they release Occult Crescent before Cosmic Exploration the latter will be dead in the water.

[Hanayumi]

Nah! Going to be on the Wilds grind for a while, Occult Crescent can drop on later!

[Red-thunder]

I'm very hopeful that the Occult Crescent is available Day 1 on Patch 7.2 content.

What kind of copium are you on

[Hallarem]

Honestly, I think we should've left it for 7.4 because fans are way too greedy and not patient. I think SE should punish the fake fans by holding it off, even make an announcement on how greedy the fans have become. When they clearly are trying their best to release the best meanwhile, like MULTITUDE of events for seasonals, that are endless fun with the music too at the housing districts and decorations. Free items, which I honestly think should be charged premium for in the cash shop, so we could support our beloved company even more.

I hope the CEO realizes that the newest trends are what are the most important and will start charging more for them.

[Wasselin]

Is the assumption that Occult Crescent is finished and completely ready and they are delaying the release? What would be the reason for delaying it?

Personally I don't think a few months is going to make a huge difference. Their strategy has never been to keep players logging in every single day, which I'm appreciative of because that can lead to some really un-fun mechanics that are really detrimental to games in the long run.

[TaleraRistain]

They may break from tradition but most likely given past releases it will be 7.25.

[Jeeqbit]

Is the assumption that Occult Crescent is finished and completely ready and they are delaying the release?

I'm quite sure it will be finished at 7.2 release. That doesn't mean it will release then (I expect it will be 7.25).

What would be the reason for delaying it?

• They have things finished for months and send them through QA, reducing the number of bugs from 1000s to just a few, which they list at the bottom of the patch notes as "Known Issues".
  
  The Known Issues are what they didn't manage to fix by the time of release. So if they release it earlier, it will likely have more bugs.
• Delaying it also spreads out the content so that you aren't overwhelmed with choice.
• It also prevents splitting all the players up. For example, if they release Cosmic Exploration and Occult Crescent at once, it is logically going to split players up so there's less activity to get each done individually. This looks likely to happen even if they delay one of them a bit. It's more of a concern for less populated data centers such as Dynamis or Materia.

Personally I don't think a few months is going to make a huge difference. Their strategy has never been to keep players logging in every single day

Very true. Their mindset is they will develop new content and if it's not ready and players are bored, they will probably just play other games and while many people don't like that mindset, there are many players that do because they are variety gamers.

that can lead to some really un-fun mechanics that are really detrimental to games in the long run.

Usually life and soul consuming grinds. I've never played WoW but I know that they famously had an exodus due to an extreme RNG grind for RNG stats on gear that had an RNG chance to be completely wasted and have to start over.

A similar system to this actually existed in Eureka Pyros, it's just you had an alternative which was Savage or tomestone weapons, the knowledge they'd make new gearing methods available in future patches, etc.

[Kranel_San]

I think if they release Occult Crescent before Cosmic Exploration the latter will be dead in the water.

It's the dev issue of not tying two different contents as one. Would it really hurt if Occult Crescent had a crafting/gathering activities going on around as well? Devs believe it does.

[Oizen]

But the formula says we need to release it 7.25, please look forward to it.