An Impossible Amount Of Content! FFXIV Patch 6.2 Is IMMINENT 

I see Bellular is continuing to misunderstand the Savage delay. It's an intentional change so Savage raiders can actually enjoy the patch at release. The only thing is the developers are unsure if it will be a permanent change and are using this patch as a trial to see how it goes.

Tbf they were *very clear* from the start that Island Sanctuary was never going to be a housing substitute so there is no real reason to be disappointed on that front ;)

I can't believe how much content 6.2 is pushing out. It all looks great. FFXIV is like a fine wine, and only gets better as time passes. It's not even close to 7.0, and I'm already excited for whatever they have in store because you know it's just not going yo disappoint.

"It's good to know Soken and co just refuse to get boring." That's the best description I've ever heard of 14s music

5:51 I think they have said savage releasing a week later than normal on 6.2 release isn't a "delay from what was planned" but a deliberate spacing to see how it effects people's ability to do the normal raids and other released content in a less-compressed time frame. A trial run that I hope goes well so people can take their time a little bit if they like.

This game is the gold standard for MMOs now. In every single way. Story, world building, art, characters, gameplay I could go on. The game has turned into an absolutel masterpeice

I started playing ff14 three months ago and this game took over my life....

FF14 is amazing, best decision to switch from wow to

I like the joke that they had to make the gear fancy and glowy in order to get us out of our Sanctuaries and into the raids. XD

The savage delay is a good thing, for previous non expansion launch tiers you had to decide between one of three things: actually enjoy the story of the raid and go through the content in a relaxed manner before savage, speedrun normal to jump into savage immediately, speedrun the new crafted gear for money. This delay serves to make it so the only rush is for world race, giving time ahead of that to enjoy the rest of the content. As someone who likes being self sufficient and also adores both the story and savage, this is perfect, I can watch all the cutscenes, absorb all the lore, then do the work to make my gear before the raid drops. (I know day one crafters lose money from people needing gear immediately in the old system, maybe there could in future be a compromise where the new mats are on patch launch but the crafted gear is with savage

It's amazing what can be done by talented people with enough budget. And having a good plan and sticking to it, which it seems the this team does helps a lot too. Playing through a lot of the content from 2.0 to 6.15 in 14 months really show how much "more" the quests have become - longer, voice acted, more view angles - all that stuff indicating more staff/money/courage. It has been a pleasure to experience it. And I'll probably do at least one more MSQ playthrough :/

Literally something for everybody in this patch. Story, raid, new PVP season, cool cosmetics, newbie improvements, super-chill farm mode.

What happens when a dev works for your sub fee rather than seeing the customer as a paypig who owes the devs and should be grateful for a patch a year.

The music at the beginning is a darker remix of the "City of Troia" piece from FF4 as the new dungeon is "The Fel Court of Troia". I desperately want this music in my collection.

I was looking for the 6.2 trailer yesterday and saw the "I just want this song" video, I immediately knew what song they ment lmao

Ffxiv builds upon itself, wow cannibalizes itself

The sheer amount of progression is really unbelievable. Thanks the team, as hope everyone enjoy.

Bell, they said in the beginning islands isn't replacing housing earlier, but no one listened.

Playing FF4 right now for first time in like, 20+yrs, just now realizing the FF14 canon job is Paladin because Cecil changes from Dark Knight to Paladin just like Shadowbringers to Endwalker. Also, the "Hummingways" and the tone that plays when you speak to them matches that audio note that plays at the Loporit moon base, the thing that sounds like an intercom queuing up

Everyone else: *loves the vocal music in the trailer* Me: "DID YOU HEAR THE FF4 BOSS MUSIC?!"

One thing I did like about the Island Sanctuary is that if you decide you like a particular look/style of an earlier step for the buildings, you will be able to choose that as the appearance rather than being locked into whatever it upgrades to. Depending on what the island hall becomes, I may just fancy the simpler almost cabana style vibe the first step gives, and being able to choose that is a win. Also, for the Savage delay, the week wait was very much intended - it's an experiment to see how it feels for players, and will allow savage raiders the chance to experience other patch content without rushing (including the normal version and its story) if they have an interest in progression.

The moment when ff14 gets more money and in return they make more content. You can see exactly where the money goes and it's beautiful

The FFXIV devs seem to be actually allowed to re-invest major parts of the extra money, the hype has brought in, back into the game. Novel concept given the current state of game development.

I love how Bellular pulled most of his info from reddit, because just yesterday i looked around ff14 reddit for info on 6.2. Everything he said at the beginning is in Reddit.

Fail to mention Hildy the gentleman of light, the best part of 6.2

I always love the reaction from long time MMO players when they learn about XIV's content cycle. "Wait, you get *how* much in one patch??" "Wait, it comes out on a schedule????" "Wait....your devs actually **talk** to you??????"

They made it clear that Island Sanctuary will not be a pseudo housing replacement very early, and if you still get disappointed or surprised by it, it's your own fault. That being said, it SHOULD HAVE BEEN. Now, they said that they will actually keep periodically updating Island Sanctuary after launching it, so perhaps one day they will swallow their pride and allow you to build your own house there, and make furnishing items actually placeable there.

*Switching over to Final Fantasy 14.* *is one of the best decision of my life.* *Endgame and Everything else is sooo good :D*

A lot of great content, but I'm probably one of the few who are more appreciative of improving the new player experience. Always interested on how devs would revamp things given the opportunity.

these post msq patches always make me lucid dream about the next expansion. ffxiv has been killing it for years now. i honestly think the team behind it can NOT mess up.

"Only" four months. That's still a month longer than their old release schedule. As for how - they just never stop working on content. YoshiP also knows how to delegate tasks appropriately, and has enough staff to keep the flow of the update schedule rolling so that they don't (usually) need to delay releases of major patches or content updates. I swear Yoshida could probably teach a masterclass on time and resource management for game production.

The improvement for new player is really helpful , for me since I play do early in the morning (4am) I can use the duty npc system to progress and enjoy watching the cutscenes ♥️♥️

the music at the beginning of the trailer isn't circus like tinkling (sp?) It's a dark, menacing version of the Castle Troia theme from FFIV, and it sounds amazing

You can always tell people coming from other games when they title the video "impossible amount of content". This is pretty par for rhe course for ff14 and what you should expect with patch content on set a schedule. The savage week delay is intentional and will most likely be a permenant thing for the better. This savage tier was always planned to have the one week delay. It allows for everyone competing for world first to start at the same time on the same level. The only concern is how this effects world first. I honestly believe this is a great thing for the raid community so you can enjoy the content.

Y'shtola is notably playing a HEALER role in the dungeon footage--you can see her in the trailer where Scarmiglione spins with his greatsword and she is NOT holding her staff like a THM/BLM, she's holding it upright with her other hand raised, like a CNJ/WHM. Cool little detail and I wonder if it'll affect her Trust status going forward. DPS/Healer role, maybe?

For some reason, something makes me feel like maybe the reaper lady is Virtra's sister's eye vessel. Like what Varshan is to Virtra.

I really hope they revisit the Binding Coils next. Making a version of those raids that are easy to get into and can be added to the raid roulette would make experiencing the fantastic story a much easier time. The presentation in the fights is also really hampered by doing them unsync'ed.

I think the new reaper lady might be the zenos’ voidsent and our 13th Azem shard. She manages a hyuran form due to her experience with zenos/on the source/in our body. Female void Ardbert.

Been looking forward to these more and more each time. Keep it up. Enjoy patch day all!

Cracks me up that every single patch the former wow player on youtube go nuts over what they are adding in a single update when this has been par for course since 2.1. I figured since I heard wow parches take a year or longer to come out they would have far far more content, but what I have been hearing is that wow takes a year to put out less that we typically get every 3.5-4 months. I will admit that since playing ffxiv since 2.0 I have always thrown a fit at other games I have played for not adding as much content when cash shops rake in far more money than sub fee's on average. But if anyone wants to see a massive ffxiv patch check out what they added in the 2.1 patch, it was nuts! 16 new msq, 1 new trial, extreme primals (1st three and ultima), Hildy questline started, player housing, 3 dungeons, crystal tower raid (it was insanely hard when it came out as most of us only had an item level around 50, you want a challenge do old content with the proper item level gear for the fight and not by clicking the min item level button), pvp, beast tribes, new fates, treasure hunts, the aesthetician, Duty Roulette, The player commendation system along with tons of new items, QoL features and fixes.

Having already cleared MSQ, i love seeing the changes to all the lower end dungeons. Getting a Trust option for running story required dungeons is something i would have loved back in the day, because some nights you want to play with randoms or hit up some guildies, other nights you just wanna take your time and zone out to enjoy the dungeon music without holding up a group.

Legit excited for the new content. And the second half music track. Fuck it's SOO GOOD! I can't wait to fight a boss to that track.

I am so happy that theres now more content other than Ultimates specifically designed for people with BiS Gear. It gives players more motivation to farm out the BiS and having a use for it.

I dont think anyone thought this would solve a housing crisis. they firmly mentioned how this wouldnt be anything like that multiple times. we literally have our own personal instanced island that we can invite people to if we want. its better than any house.

interesting about our WoL counter part on 13, that remind me about FF5 warrior of dawn, which the old heros that defeated and seal exdeath in the parth, i could see they use this concept if they need a title for our WoL in the void world since warrior of darkness already used

It's a good time to be an mmo gamer!

Ffxiv gets a lot more cool stuff in a single patch than wow in entire expansion.

I can't get over how good that raid armor looks man.

It pleases me to see so much buzz around that metal song that showed up in the trailer. Soken is a damn legend. The future duty support changes will also invest new players a bit more in characters like Alphinaud, who didn't really gain recognition in my group until Shadowbringers.

RE: the Criterion dungeon difficulty, he said the 3 bosses would be equivalent to Savage 1.5, Savage 3 and Savage 4, and then the Savage version of the dungeon is even harder than that. In Normal you have the Raises, but in Savage there is no ressing at all, and wiping in Savage resets the entire dungeon, AND Savage has an enrage timer over the entire dungeon. It's fully designed for people who have geared up in the 8 man Savage so presumably is tuned for BiS.

This really gotta make ya wonder how crazy ffxiv would be if they had wow’s budget…

As a lover of FFIV, it's fantastic to see what we're getting this patch, not counting the surely-to-be-above nuts second tier of Pandaemonium and everything else! Hyyyppppeee.

Shared it to Twitter, really like this chnanel

The collective THIRST after Lahabrea when the key art dropped sure was something alright.

I got my vacations to coincide with the patch on purposze cos i really wanna have the time to do it ALL! So excited! loads of stuff and a side comment, Eorzea has been unsually active these last couple of days, loads of ppl everywhere even on the "hidden" instances, been getting full teams of sprouts on the leveling roulette, the hype is real!

OG Dragoon is Ricard Highwind from FF2. He adopted his friend's son... Kain.

A moment of silence for all those who will never be seen again once Island Sanctuary launches. Can we please get an "F" for all those who are going to disappear into this content?

nice seeing Bellular still hyped on ffxiv^^

I'll be honest anybody that was thinking island sanctuary to be a replacement for housing was deluding themselves, after all the infrastructures they've spent in housing already, thinking they'll simply ditch the system is a wishful thinking at best. Also in truth I blieve that both the scarcity and the neighbouring they created with the system is all intended and I don't see them moving away from that

havnt played for 4 months, maybe a good time to come back. solid content in this patch, sounds great. love the new dungeon stuff

Please go play FFIV before you play the patch, especially if you've got time to kill. The 3D remake is on Steam and heavily referenced by FFXIV already. I've been going through it slowly for the past couple weeks now and every time I see something that was referenced in XIV I just get excited, and it made me appreciate the ending of 6.1 all the more Haven't beaten it yet, but I'm at the end and I'm just so thrilled and excited to be going into 6.2. It's going to enhance my experience tenfold, I think.

To reiterate what people are already saying in the comments, the savage delay is not to add extra dev time. Its ane experiment to try a new release schedule to allow players to take their time to go through MSQ and then race to clear savage together instead of rushing through story just to unlock savage asap to get as much prog to clear it first. Also, the book discount on savage gear only applies to the the first tier of pandemonium, not the upcoming second tier. Love the content Bellular, but please clarify some of these kinds of details in your videos next time

Man it feels crazy, been with ffxiv since 2.0's beta phasees. The amount of stuff we started off with felt pretty reasonable, every patch just added more to do, more systems to mess around with, always more Story and a Dungeon, Back then we had 3 dungeons a patch too (the "Hard" mode ARR lvl 50 dungeons), which sadly got reduced down to 2 around Heavensward then to 2 one patch 1 another in Stormblood then now to only 1 in Shadowbringers and Endwalker. This pretty much tells you they don't need to only do dungeons and raids to do content, the time they could have spent making 2 extra dungeons have gone into things like Ultimate Raids, Eureka and Bozja (and DRN/S), BLU, doing more Hildebrand from what was initially planned for it (including the trials related to it), adding flying to 2.0 areas (which required map reworks to fix things you would have seen during flight which you wouldn't whilst grounded), Duty Support additions (and working on Trusts for ShB), all the extra quality of life stuff and new systems added since (PVP reworks, Glamour Dresser, Adventurer Plates etc) and now Island Sanctuary. Honestly if they stuck to their 2.0 ways of 3 dungeons a patch, it would have gotten boring long ago and it's definitely a sacrifice that was worth it. 1 dungeon to me has been more than sufficient and I think Square sees the "2 dungeons of work" per patch as a minimum for how much extra stuff they can replace that time with, they might have took some of that time to develop features for longer (like Island Sanctuary which for me is definitely more then 2 dungeons worth) and they even said they plan to do updates to it every 2 patches (so we might see some more for it in 5.4 and 5.5 part2/6.0). I remember them mentioning a good while ago about adding another islands to it (maybe a non-tropical one to spice things up and give us new forms of buildings, flora and fauna to deal with) near the end of 6.x so that could be something to look forward to if you end up enjoying 6.2's Island Sanctuary. That for sure wasn't promised and is tentative but it sure gets me hyped for what they do with it.

Spirit Dart??? [1.0 thousand-yard stare]

And new pvp series

Those Savage gear looks great. Can't wait to get em in about 6 years when I can do the Savages unsynched.

savage gear and weapons look sick!

Anyone that was still holding out hope that Island Sanctuary would be a replacement for housing wasn't paying much attention. They stated multiple times that it was not going to replace housing. If they had a way to offer the same features as housing, they would just fix housing. The reason most or all of the island is prefabs is the exact reason that there's a housing crisis in the game at all. The infrastructure they need to support the level of customization in housing is astronomical. The lack of houses isn't some kind of planned scarcity thing. Server infrastructure in the real world bottlenecks how much they can add. So presumably Island Sanctuary, with it's prefabs, is way, WAY more affordable to implement from that perspective. That's also why everyone gets one for free.

Not sure but isn´t the guy from the Waring Triad Story the WoL from the 13th?

you also forgot adventure plates getting full released and out of beta

i just realized variant dungeon is a quip from vagrant story

Every time I see proto carbuncle my immediate thought is how did it evolve?

bellular just blew my fuckin mind, and for final fantasy xiv of all things, bro i was just thinking that zenos voidsent or the reaper lady could be our 13th counterpart, i never even considered they were the same person

We will never see anyone in town again, everyone will be on their own island.

1:12 i didn't think about that... but yeah, this lady may be our 13th's WOL counterpart, like Ardbert. So cool if it is true.

Tbh I'm not that mad at it not replacing housing - I trust these devs to figure out a housing solution, and I imagine that's why Island Sanctuaries aren't a replacement.

My gf has an interventionist on standby for me, when the Island sanctuary goes live.

6.2 really is going to have a lot of content, but as someone who has been playing FFXIV for a few years I still love seeing former WoW players freak out about the SE team's consistency and and amount of content.

I'm so glad FF14 remains the kind of game I can always come back to and know that it won't disappoint.

I wonder if the content will continue until the main character becomes it's original form and what will take place at the end, perhaps once at journey end we too will return to the star forming all shards into one without the need of sacrificing everyone to do so.

I was hoping that the island would offer a housing option, but I didn't count on it and switched to one of the new servers when they became available in late July (many did). And I was rewarded. I have the house I wanted (I crafted for a whole year to get the gil for it) and the neighbors I met during the lottery time also all got their house (EU servers). = Almost none of the house-lotteries had more than one bid on it (not even big ones) and many private houses are available still. (The large and medium ones are mostly taken by now though.) = If you wanted a house on an EU server you just had to switch to one of the new servers which was also free and the XP boost on new servers is pretty crazy too. PS. With the housing issue sorted out for me, I can finally return to the msq and finish Shadowbringers & Endwalker. =^-^=

Anyone know the name of the outro song? It sounds very thavnair but I have no clue what it’s from

Legit the best mmo ever made. You can see why!

that reaper lady is probably azdaja

I got the Steps of Faith in a roulette with a friend and darted ahead to the cannons - they didn't even know that was a thing.

These are very good patches so far!

1:05 --- Reaper girl seems to be the MSQ version of Mide... 4:19 --- I'd love some more... well, fantasy-inspired glam. Seems to me their last releases were almost only casual/modern wear. Sure, looks cool and cozy, but I miss the other look... I guess, I have to make due with the armor pieces we have. It wasnt planned... but hell, am I glad I took my annual holiday in two weeks XD Two weeks FF14, 24/7 - sleep's for the dead XD Also, and this is what many people said and I just want to add another point to it: savage ISNT "delayed". They release it a week later. Its finished, its ready for shipping, they release it a week later by design. And not because its not ready or need additional fine tuning. They have communicated the reasons several times already over the past months (!!!), so keep repeating it wrong doesnt help here.

im so happy i tried final fantasy, i only wish i started playing earlier.

> Persona vibes I am thou...thou art I

Island sanctuaries remind me of similar think in warlords of dranor where you can upgrade your command area hired people etc. Only this one is on a bigger scale with alot of options

Regarding the unreal version of Sephirot: Unreals tend to be the same as their associated Extreme, just tweaked slightly and rebalanced to suit the current level cap. For the most part I'm expecting it to remain mostly the same as Sephirot Extreme, just maybe with a bit more 'Look before you leap'.

I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROOOOOACHING

for those misunderstanding. island sanctuary is not housing, there are not like as housing in housing ward. you just build fixed building it been said many times

Let's hope this patch can actually keep me entertained. 6.1 was lackluster in terms of content and I haven't launched the game in like six weeks now.

Reminded me of Vampire Hunter D. Just aged myself.

Ricard from FF2 is the actual OG Dragoon, Kain is just far and away the most popular and iconic.

the theme ppl will be the trial theme they dont usually put raid music into teasers

Wait I thought we knew who our counterpart from the 13th was, I thought it was Unukalhai.

How the hell does this team keep up? How big is it? Even the last patch was "smal" (PFFFFF) and it was enough for me to want to pop in and check the EX and the 24man alone. Meanwhile I feel Blizzard made me wait what felt like* a decade and I couldn't be assed to check Korthia because I could already expect unfun gates and grinds and, to be honest, I was still butthurt about shit like the vault anyways.

6.2 gives like very "big patch" the same amount of content, and the most stuff comes nearly about the middle/end of the patch with 6.25 - means in around 2 months. on the 23.08 when 6.2 launches, we just get MSQ around 10 quests, 1 day content with 1 dungeon, the 2nd tier of the raids in normal mode and one week later the savage raids and the Sancturary Island. Tataru's side quest., All the other content like relics, beast tribes, variant dunegons and savage version of them etc with 6.25.