Should you’re eagerly anticipating the subsequent FFXIV growth you could be ready some time longer but. Whereas the most recent 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 gained’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 at the moment at across the midway mark within the post-expansion cycle for FFXIV Endwalker. For the reason that launch of the revamped Closing Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn in 2013, every growth 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 growth act as a coda to the story informed within the growth’s principal story (recognized in-game because the MSQ, or ‘Fundamental State of affairs Quest’). The ultimate two patches typically arrange what’s to come back – although there’s typically a bit of 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’ battle towards Omega. Previously there have often been roughly three to 4 months between main patches, although this tempo has slowed marginally throughout Endwalker with director Naoki Yoshida remarking that he desires to keep away from over-stressing the group, 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 prone 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 growth pack releases [are] deliberate” for its principal MMOs, however says it “will deal with 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 a bit of half-hearted.
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