Question about DLC

[BadDudesaBomBa]

Hi,

Please be understanding, I'm not a big FF guy, or MMO guy for that matter, but last year I played a bit of FF XIV (until my subscription expired) and I kinda liked it, so much so that I put Endwalker on my wishlist, and I was planning on getting back to the game sometime later, maybe when there's a discount on the DLC, but now I see that they're doing a new one?
To be honest, I'm not even sure how this works with this game. They put out a new DLC and that does what exactly? Is it like a new season for a tv show? If I start playing with the new content, are the old campaign missions still available to me?

And what happens with the old DLC? Endwalker is no longer available on the store, does that mean that I completely missed out on that content? Or is it all going to be included in Dawntrail?

Thanks

[Aidenel]

Everything is available, and the story is required to play through to get to newer content.
Buying the newest expansion gives you all the previous ones. (Once it releases)

[Scarla8888]

No it’s all included in Dawntrail now.

And it’s not like season passes, you can play the whole story from start to finish anytime

[Niras]

Endwalker was "removed" cuz new expansion Dawntrail is coming out. First and foremost ppl differentiate between DLC and expansion. While "expanison" falls under DLC (cuz you download it) ppl emphasise a scope of additional content you get access to by differentiation from general term when you purchase an expansion. DLC is often associated with smaller additions like clothes, items etc.
Ofc you still have access to old content cuz expansion expands story,world and amount of content on top of already existing content.

Each expansions grant you access to new zones, dungeons,trials, potential new activities, jobs and next part of main story.
Each MMO expansion release also comes with a big update changing things like job skills and somtimes adds content to old expansion or/and current one. In case of FF XIV patches after relase of the expansion add new parts of the story, additional content - dungeons, trials.

I think "season for a show" is somewhat accurate as to how expansions in MMO work. You can still rewatch previous seasons but new season expands the story, characters etc.

As for purchasing right know/soon buying Dawntrail should grant you access to Shadowbringers, Endwalker and Dawntrail.
A real reborn, Havensword, Stormblood are part of starter edition
source: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/dawntrail/product/
"* Registration of this product grants users access to Dawntrail, as well as previous expansion packs, Shadowbringers and Endwalker."

I think it was done for the sake of clarity cuz buying multiple prior expansions could've been daunting for new player + both annyoing and impractical cuz "skipping" an expansion would result in skipping imporant part of the game - main story and no one would be happy about the need of buying previous expansion to get ability to buy access to the newest content.


Sidenote: buying an expansion doesn't grant you any additonal days to your subscription. You have to buy a sub separately.