Someone crunched the numbers and worked out this was cheaper than dealing with people wanting refunds of their DLC content when the main game was delisted.

I can’t speak to the Xbox stuff but for the most part I feel the Dawntrail launch has gone really well. Yes, there’s some bugs, that’s usually inevitable for a launch of this size, but the only game breaking one I’ve seen was Syrcus Tower which was fixed in under 24 hours without bringing the game down for maintenance.

But I don’t think there’s been anywhere near as many queuing issues as there was in Endwalker, and while I’m only just past the first dungeon in the MSQ the only issues I’ve seen (other than ST) have been cosmetic.

They pushed a hotfix out for it.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/4a5c69b15c1f8712b9a2e113e6487347d605ffbb

Nice, that’s good to know. Problem of course is can you coordinate that in alliance roulette instead of people just voting abandon as more people discover the problem.

The job listing in question. With all the new Vipers out there, demand can only go up.

Correct. The countdown is to the official release, not the early access.

You can also cheese it with resurrection, the raise invul blocks curtain call damage. But since everyone else is then dead you need a strategy to revive people afterwards.

Also a lot of the potency increases aren’t just always there, they’re based on new traits you get in the level 91-100 range, so you won’t see those increases immediately in most cases, you have to level up and get the new job trait.

It’s based on the new AF gear I think! Marked it as a spoiler if you don’t want to see it but I’m pretty sure they demoed this during the live letter.

Same here! I want to know what gear pieces they’ve based it on so I can turn this into a glam!

Honestly probably just watch some TV or get some extra work done, although if you’re looking for a game to play, the remastered version of Beyond Good & Evil came out this week. Been probably 20 years since I played it originally but I remember it being a fun game with a great cast and musical score.

I’m hoping the queuing isn’t as bad this time. People forget that since Endwalker they’ve actually done some work on the queuing stuff and the disconnects during queuing (admittedly after a network engineer who played the game was able to comprehensively demonstrate there was issues in the game’s netcode causing the disconnects, but still). And they’ve added in the extra servers as well to help with the initial surge that you’d expect will happen.

That’s not to say there won’t be queues of course but I’m not expecting it to be as bad as EW was.

Fair point. Personally I’d love to see you be able to save a glamour against a gear set as well so you can use your glamour plates for everything else. But with gear sets being stored client side rather than server side that probably won’t happen.

Will be interesting if we get something akin to the body snatcher mission from Endwalker. I remember a lot of people struggled with it at the time but I quite enjoyed the change in pace (and I don’t mind a stealth game either so sneaking around the ruins avoiding enemies was fun to me).

They’ve added a new side quest that will give you the Fantasia, it’s listed in the patch notes! So once you complete that you’ll get it.

Such a simple change but easily one of the better QOL updates.

And if you still have Road to 80 and they update that to 90, you can double that.

Right? I’m not even asking for more glamour chest space! (Yet. Baby steps.)

Sadly didn’t see anything about increasing the number of glamour plates. We now have more jobs than glamour plates, so if you have one glam per job, something has to share, and you have no room for casual glams. And that’s before you factor in DoH/DoL jobs.

A lot of people will be excited about that to get Viper and Picto to 90 quickly 😊