I've been somewhat bored (maybe due to the lackluster anniversary events) recently and had the thought to go over the entire lifecycle of this game since launch and compare to our predecessor in JP's version. I'm going to be using mainly the wiki's update schedule as reference for this endeavor.

First off, let's remind ourselves that GL is a slightly different take on the game. It's foolish to call it a different game, when it's essentially likely 98% of the same code in the end. What GL does do though is make tweaks, additions, omissions, and reorders content releases.

Second, this list may be incomplete. I don't play JP, so if there's content that wasn't included on the wiki page, I very likely will not be aware of it. I'm already not seeing a few updates I was pretty sure I heard happened, but out of objectiveness I'll stick to the wiki page.

That all being said, I figured it would be interesting to look over everything JP has released, and see where we stand in GL as to what we never got, what we haven't got yet, and what we got early, among other things. This list will begin at release date and stop as of the end of October 2017, right before the 7* awakening release in JP.

So without further ado, let's take a look at the content that is not marked "Released" on that page:

Skipped Events and Banners

• FFBE: Visitors from Beyond
• FFBE: The Winter Festival Tree
• FFBE: The Kingdom's Light of Hope
• Collab: Terra Battle
• Collab: Imperial SaGa
• FFBE: Save the Choco-Chocobo!
• FFBE: Great Transformation of Santa in Holy Night
• Raid: Monster Hunter Explorer
• Raid: Imperial SaGa
• Mog King: Seiken Densetsu Series king mog
• Raid: Bravely Series
• Raid: GL Version Anniversary

Missing Game Updates

• Login Bonuses
• Friend Levels
• Arena Tickets gacha update
• Daily Missions
• Chocobo Expeditions
• 5* Select Tickets

Missing Units and Awakenings

• Gabranth
• Awakening Batch 11
  • Balthier
• Awakening Batch 13
  • Onion Knight
  • Aria
  • Desch
  • Aura
  • Ulrica
  • Heltich
• Awakening Batch 14
  • Nyx
  • Vargas
  • Maxwell
  • Tilith
  • Crowe
  • Glauca
  • Goken
  • Silvia

Missing Trials

• Chamber of Arms: Vindemiatrix (seriously, Vin Demire Tricks?)
• Chamber of Arms: Brachium
• 3* Espers: Diabolos and Tetra Sylphid

Now that we've listed out everything we've missed, let's go back over that list and understand which ones we skipped for a reason, which ones we will likely see soon (or eventually), and which ones are a total mystery.

1) The FFBE original events. The first four of them came out early in the game's lifecycle, and we're unlikely to ever see them. We had different GL events like Demons Unleashed with the same concept. Unfortunate, since the Chocobo one had a unique mob, but no rewards of note to care about.

2) The early Terra Battle and Imperial SaGa collabs. Similar to the first four FFBE events, but collabs with other games. They had unique units, gear, and monsters, but unfortunately there's a 99.99% chance we'll never see them added to GL.

3) The Christmas 2016 event. This one is somewhat of a puzzler. I don't see why we didn't get this last winter, as it was basically just some minor quests in the Farplane for santa clothes upgrades, and a high difficulty trial Gigarat. Considering we got his big brother the Terarat in another event, it's strange we never got a chance to do this. Maybe this winter?

4) MHXR and Imperial SaGa raids. These seem highly unlikely to ever show up here at this point as well sadly. However, I wouldn't say it's 100%, as we did eventually get DQMSL's event waaaaay after it's release originally. But these two seem pretty unlikely at this point. Especially given IS's initial event never happening, as well.

5) The Seiken Densetsu mog king is puzzling. We know what SoM is and got the first event for it. We also had SD1 globally as well (under the name Final Fantasy Adventure). SD3 was never released officially but is widely known. But it seems like at this point they'll just pass on this event and do the second SoM event instead sadly. A shame.

6) The Bravely series raid seems like it should have potential to come here, but perhaps they need an incentive to do so. It's recent enough in the event list that I wouldn't count this out entirely yet, though being pre-7* meta something would have to change to make it have a point after they release. Obviously the JP raid for the GL version won't be coming here. They got unique versions of some of our GLEX units and an event to go along with it.

7) We're into the game mechanics now. Login Bonuses are unlikely to happen as we have a different system and see them in events along with having had daily login rewards since launch. Friend levels are sadly unlikely to ever happen due to Facebook fucking everything up. Chocobo expeditions won't happen, we have GL's version instead which has both better and worse points to it. Daily missions are a question mark, given we have dailies already, but this could be something else.

8) As for mechanics we SHOULD see... we have no idea in hell where the Arena Ticket gacha change is. It's absurdly overdue. We're about to come up on the second update JP got. No excuses here, Gumi needs to get their ass in gear. And as for UOC tickets, well, they better be added extremely soon, or Gumi's going to see a huge tank in the playerbase as people quit.

9) For units and awakenings, really only Gabranth and Balthier's ability awakenings are overdue. Balthier's are likely intentionally delayed due to him coming out late in GL in Gabranth's place. Batch 13 and 14 took place after the Veritas in JP, which we just got, so we should see most of these incoming in the next month or two. They're behind by about 2 months or so, but it is what it is.

10) Speaking of being behind by a couple months, hello trials. Thanks to the last 6 weeks or so, Gumi caught up a good deal, but they're still behind by two CoA trials and one more set of two 3* espers. We can hope to see Vindemiatrix and Diabolos/Tetra next month at least, even if the CoA stays sluggish.

As for what's coming up very soon, I suppose I can copy over a brief look at the next 2~3 months or so to sate curiosity (since we should hopefully get some of the above in that timeframe anyways. JP looked like:

Events and Banners

• Mog King: FF8
• Story: Naru
• Raid: DQMSL
• Mog King: FFXI
• Story: Hyou
• Weapon Enhancement
• Mog King: FFT0 (rerun)
• Raid: Illustration Contest
• Mog King: FFXV / Kings Knight
• Story: Citra
• Weapon Enhancement
• Raid: Valkyrie Profile
• Mog King: FF7

Story and Trials

• Chamber of the Fallen: Omega
• Chamber of Arms: Shaura
• 3* Esper: Fenrir
• Story: Season 2, Chapter 4, Part 1
• Chamber of the Indignant: Antenolla
• Chamber of Arms: Nunki
• Chamber of the Fallen: Queen Malboro
• 3* Espers: Phoenix and Odin
• Story: Season 2, Chapter 4, Part 2
• 2* Esper: Alexander
• Chamber of Arms: Dabih
• 3* Esper: Leviathan
• Story: Season 2, Chapter 4, Part 3
• Chamber of the Indignant: 2-Headed Dragon

Unit and Ability Awakenings

• 7* Batch 1
• Ability Batch 15
  • Ayaka
  • Roy
  • Loren
  • William
  • Chloe
  • Moogle
• 7* Batch 2
• Ability Batch 16
  • Cloud
  • Elreeda
  • Imperial SaGa units
• 7* Batch 3
• Ability Batch 17
  • Duke
  • Gladiolus
  • Mystea
  • Cor
  • Olif
  • Iris
  • Charie
• 7* Batch 4 (final)

Game Updates

• 7* Awakenings
• Arena Ticket gacha update #2
• EX Points update
• Stat pot fusions, 99 fusion limit
• STMRs

So basically, there's only a few things to note here. First, we already saw the Illustration Contest raid quite a bit earlier. We also had a very different King's Knight event on GL. We've also recieved the unit fusion QOLs early. A bit later than this, we had our own Tomb Raider raid as well. What this likely means is open slots in the raid positions as usual for GL exclusive collabs or event types.

Other than that, the schedule for content is fairly stable on JP with one mog king, story event, one raid, one story update, one unit awakening batch, one ability awakening batch, one item world, and one or more trials per month. Hopefully we can keep pace with them and wrap up the few pieces we're lagging behind on as of this point on the way.

Hope this is helpful or interesting to some of you guys who are curious just what we missed or haven't gotten yet from the JP side of things. All in all, we aren't that far behind the content they were at at this point, assuming most of the skipped content is dead and done. We've basically got just a few trials and some game updates remaining to go at this point.