The two things that Final Fantasy XIV players were hoping to find in today’s patch 5.58 were data center travel and the release of the long-awaited datamined Cruise Chaser mount. Neither of those is included in this patch. What is included is the removal of weekly limits on rewards from the Tower at Paradigm’s Breach or weapon tokens from the final Eden tier, so you’ll have an easier time farming that for rewards. There are also changes to relic content and Save the Queen areas to make clearing both easier, especially with smaller groups.
Also of note is the game’s AFK timer, which will automatically log anyone out after 30 minutes of inactivity within the game to help ease server congestion. This is not, in and of itself, unheard of; the game has done this many time before, but never before during a period of quiet before an expansion rather than during an expansion launch. The game continues to beat its own concurrency records on Steam as well.
However, it’s worth noting before you start pitting the game against World of Warcraft that producer and director Naoki Yoshida sees that discussion as being both wrong and irritating. So keep that in mind.
