In the event you’re eagerly anticipating the subsequent FFXIV enlargement chances are you’ll be ready some time longer but. Whereas the newest instalment within the story of the critically acclaimed MMORPG, Endwalker, arrived over a yr in the past in December 2021, it sounds as if we received’t get hands-on with FFXIV 7.0 in 2023 as writer Sq. Enix confirms that no expansions are deliberate for it or Dragon Quest X this yr.
We’re presently at across the midway mark within the post-expansion cycle for FFXIV Endwalker. Because the launch of the revamped Closing Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn in 2013, every enlargement has been adopted up by 5 subsequent main patches (x.1 by means of x.5), with minor updates rolling out between these.
Sometimes, the primary three patches after an enlargement act as a coda to the story advised within the enlargement’s foremost story (recognized in-game because the MSQ, or ‘Most important Situation Quest’). The ultimate two patches usually arrange what’s to come back – although there’s typically somewhat mixing of the format as required by the tales in query.
FFXIV patch 6.3 arrived on January 10, adopted up shortly after by the discharge of 6.31, which corresponded with the discharge of the fifth ‘final’ struggle in opposition to Omega. Up to now there have normally been roughly three to 4 months between main patches, although this tempo has slowed marginally throughout Endwalker with director Naoki Yoshida remarking that he needs to keep away from over-stressing the crew, particularly throughout vacation durations.
It’s not an excessive amount of of a stretch then, to have assumed that we wouldn’t be seeing FFXIV 7.0 land in 2023 – some fast maths means that patch 6.4 is more likely to arrive round Might or June, with patch 6.5 touchdown in September or October. We now have extra official affirmation, nevertheless – a Sq. Enix monetary outcomes briefing for 2022 notes in its look forward on the coming yr that “No enlargement pack releases [are] deliberate” for its foremost MMOs, however says it “will concentrate on retaining customers by means of quite a lot of operational initiatives.”
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Yoshida beforehand famous that the FFXIV 7.0 story planning occasion has concluded, that means the tough define for the subsequent instalment is already set. He additionally confirmed that the FFXIV 7.0 stage cap is 100 throughout a livestream for patch 6.3, although says that going past this sooner or later to stage 110 or additional would really feel somewhat half-hearted.
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