Quote Originally Posted by Lexia View Post
Is that not still giving them money for a product you find inferior? Anyways I wasn't trying to attack you your post was way more aggressive then what I posted. The game been out for 2 years and I just don't see them changing how they going to do things.
Subscribing for only 4 months of the year still cuts their income by 2/3rds (well, 50% if we include the expansion).
Either SE is content to rest on their laurels by appealing to the casual playerbase who're happy with the current release schedule: and despite how much of an asshole I might appear to be I wont disparage people for not devoting their lives to this game; or they'll have to shape up and release more content to tide over those that have the desire and drive to login once a day. "FFXI" might be a dirty word around here but the developers could stand to take a few leaves from its book. Notorious Monsters, dungeons you explore within a time limit, dungeons in the overworld, frontier work helping out NPCs and defending caravans/fortifications from legitimately dangerous mobs, enemy raids on towns like XIV used to have with the Atomos events in 1.0.
I say all that and I've never actually played XI. But I wish I had. Because it sounds awesome.

Nonetheless, if the pattern of Tome farming + Hardcore raid + Casual raid continue past 4.0 I'm simply going to stop playing. I like the story but the game is extremely bad value for money and it's honestly just not worth the bother.