Quote Originally Posted by MistakeNot View Post
FFXIV is very clearly designed such that you are not really supposed to spend all your time playing it. Hardcore players will run out of content halfway through each patch (or sooner) - and the developers don't have a problem with that.
If you run out of things to do here - do something else for a while.
Though, they probably should have a problem with that.

Since, given that their schedule is releasing content in 3 month intervals, having the game set up so that the optimal way to play it is sub for 1 month, complete all the content added with a patch, then unsub for 2 months until the next content drop is not a particularly great business model.

This is saying nothing about the fact that honestly, given how irrelevant gear is for progression, it is possible to simply sub for 2-3 months every 2 years at the end of an expansion and go through all the content in that time...

For a game with a subscription fee, you should want people to have a reason to stay subbed every month because that's how you earn the most money and get a consistent playerbase.

Though, I suppose that given the way the higher ups deal with the money, wherein they siphon most of the money made from FFXIV's subs and expansions to fund other games like FFXV DLC, FFVIIR and what have you, perhaps the devs don't actually have a reason to care about keeping people subbed if they're only going to get the same pittance from SE anyway...