The issue with serious endgame players on FFXI is the drop rates increased massively, we went from players expecting to do salvage for years to complete sets to complaining they didn't cap out on Shinryu drops in a month. The mass majority of ffxi players are still working on Dyna D gear let alone Ody, so this "lack of content" is very much only impacting the top 10-20% that have the means to spam new content and now have expectations of getting all the drops in a few months.

Reality check: Every mmorpg has these people, they are totally insatiable and no dev team can keep them happy. FF14 devs literally telll their hardcore players to go play another game if they are bored and come back for new patches.

Back in they day we did Dynamis for 10 years because the drop rates kept you there, so this isn't that we used to have so much content before and so little now. It's that drop rates are so high you're actually capping content now when you barely ever did before.


Here the realtity if you want it put straight:

Pay $3 a month for ZERO updates at all EVER AGAIN because all the staff your sub pays for retire and are not replaced (and once this happens it is over, because they will not be able to train people to come on at a later date, this knowledge on updating this old engine will be lost forever), the reduced fee will just pay insurance fees, power, server maintenance etc costs.

or

Pay $12 a month to pay the wages of the people who work on the game now.

These are your two options, you cannot pay less and get what you're getting now because what little you are paying now pays their wages. As the money coming in is reduced they make more cuts to staff and so you get less and at a point they just quit trying to keep updating the game at all and retire or go work on some new project in SE.

Also this is not $12 a week, this is $3 a week for a game you probably spend upto 20-60 hours a week on. This is not a movie that you're done with in 2 hours, or a starbucks cofee you spend $3.99 on and is gone in 10. The only people that can possibly complain about paying so little are people who mass multibox, and if you did that (as I do) you chose to do it.