Things sure have been stale around here...when is the next major patch ?

[Jojoya]

How is it "breakneck speed" to complete things like Copied Factory, MSQ, Eden (Normal) and etc. when they release? None of that takes more than a handful of hours. Even at a slow pace, you'd be done over a weekend. I wouldn't call that "breakneck speed." Which leaves things like Ocean Fishing, The Firmament and Blue Mage. The former two are essentially one and done much like the MSQ. There's no point to spamming Ocean Fishing once you've obtained the mount and minion. Once in a while for fun? Sure. But it has no longevity.

If your only interest is in a small part of the overall content and you do it once then you're done with it, then of course you're going to run out of things to do. MMOs are designed around repetition of content, not once then done.

I've got friends still running Copied Factory just because they like it and not because they need anything from it. I've got other friends running Eden Savage to get gear for alt jobs.

The Firmament still has content for crafters and gatherers. It's by no means once and done unless your only interest is the quests and FATEs. The Expert achievements are a good 500 hours grinding. You don't think that qualifies as longevity when most games are completed in 20-30 hours and then you move onto another game?

There are lots of spells to be learned as BLU and not everyone was interested in running EX trials hundreds of times a week to knock out all those spells as fast as possible. I suspect it's still an extremely small portion of the player base that has earned their Morbol mount at this point.

There's plenty of content out there worth doing right now. If you don't want to be doing it, that's fine but it doesn't mean that content doesn't exist and can't be repeated if you desire.

Most gamers would not consider 8-10hrs a week a lot of playtime. Which I am assuming is your average game time with your comment.

And you'd be totally incorrect in that assumption. I play far more hours than that a week.

There's plenty of content I enjoy so I repeat doing it. Crafting, gathering, beast tribes, FATEs, hunts, roulettes, housing, running the FC workshop and doing content with other FC members... all things I like to do and so that content has longevity for me.

As for what most gamers do, most true gamers play a lot of different games because they know it's impossible for a single game to fill all their available time. If you expect a single game to fill up all your available time, I wish you luck but I doubt you're going to find one.