8.0?

[Jeeqbit]

Yoshida talked some about DT being their return to expansions always releasing in summer, but 8.0 releasing in summer 2027 sounds like financial suicide.

That would legit be a 12-14 month gap between 7.5 and 8.0 unless they speed up development and release it the same month as JP fanfest.

[MayuAmakura]

Surely they will fix stuff in 8.0 and make jobs better and feel more unique. Big copium inhale. Let's not forget that this is their usual thing to make everyone hype for it and then see that jobs get watered down, removed abilities and typical thing of: "add 1 spell at max level".

When 8.0 comes, we will gather here and then type: ''9.0 when?".

[Gwenkatsu]

This is, despite what people say, an MMORPG and needs to keep players entertained between patchs, and even if the story is excellent, is it going to keep you online for 4 months once you finish it or are you going to play other games until the patch comes out?

When the story defines an interesting world, I am entertained. So yes, it will definitely keep me online for 4 months.
As I said in another thread, I'm easy to please as a customer. Unless a company royally effs up /cough/ DT /cough/
Shaaloani alone made me quit DT for 6 weeks, and Solution 9 didn't help either. So although there was still a lot of content for me to play, I rather went somewhere else. Just because story and scenario sucked so bad.

[Kozh]

Considering people were always complaining about content drought, majority of players don't stay online just for the story. Maybe there are some who do that (though I'm not sure what's to do after you finish the msq and there's nothing else), but generally people ask for other contents. Hence why they give us alliance raid, EX trials, Savage, relic etc between msq patches.

Even during ShB, which is considered the peak writing of ff14, this didn't change. I remember people were desperate because there's nothing to do when covid caused delay of 5.3 ( or 5.2, I don't really remember)

[AlucaDragonheart]

8.0 releasing in 2027 would absolutely doom this game.

[Raikai]

8.0 releasing in 2027 would absolutely doom this game.

May be the estimate prediction... but I have to agree here.

Unless the rest of the planned side content (Deep Dungeon, V&C, BST, Cosmic zones and especially the North Horn) absolutely deliver. But then, what are the chances? They don't seem to adjust their ongoing production based on feedback, so whatever is being discussed today in 7.2 may only be taken in consideration for 7.4 or 7.5.

[YovelaLindswood]

Surely they will fix stuff in 8.0 and make jobs better and feel more unique. Big copium inhale. Let's not forget that this is their usual thing to make everyone hype for it and then see that jobs get watered down, removed abilities and typical thing of: "add 1 spell at max level".

When 8.0 comes, we will gather here and then type: ''9.0 when?".

If I had a nickel every time SE promised something in the next expansion (that they never follow through on) i'd have a down payment for a small country.

[Supersnow845]

Honestly at this point they should just cut their losses, cut 7.4 and 7.5. Release north horn in like November then aim for 8.0 as soon as possible (like March). 7.2 was their last chance to “save” DT. At this point the playerbase is going to be stewing in anger till 8.0 no matter what they do so they may as well get it over with as quickly as possible

[Kahnha]

tbth job rework sounds bad to me but I'll give it a chance

so they change the jobs does that mean the shuffle numbers make it to where we have to relearn the classes? that does not sound good to me just get rid of the two min meta and make all the classes fun in their own way as they are. For Ex you can get an inner release every 30 seconds, blood lily quickly fills passively, attack times and recast times halved reward combos. Stack buttons to reduce button bloat add more customization to he character creator not just hair.

attack effect customization youtube shows some wild suff goings on with 14 something outside of a grind to get but rewards for grinding and exploring.

expansion of old content

voice acting for trial stories

bring back the 40 - 50 min afk roulette

there are so many things Square can do to make this game better

so many layups

and instead we're getting apologies and monitization in a subscription game
some of us been paying since 2014 to see it go into games like forespoken and FF16 it's so annoying.

[Daralii]

Honestly at this point they should just cut their losses, cut 7.4 and 7.5. Release north horn in like November then aim for 8.0 as soon as possible (like March). 7.2 was their last chance to “save” DT. At this point the playerbase is going to be stewing in anger till 8.0 no matter what they do so they may as well get it over with as quickly as possible

Ah, the Warlords of Draenor approach. Blizzard decided that the expansion was unsalvageable at some point between 6.0's development and 6.1, so they scrapped what was planned and just went with as fast a segue into the next expansion as possible.