Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
While that may work for you as someone who only intends to play the game for a small portion of time. It isn't a win many others. Of everything you listed, I'll have it all done over a weekend. And that's if I opt to stretch it out. Hell, my BFF worked full time throughout the pandemic and we still did 5.3's entire content in less than two days—excluding the EX. Which I did on my own later. This is what frustrates a lot of people. The sheer lack of longevity. Even if 5.35 released on time, we're waiting six weeks because the little breadcrumb of content finally dropped lasted a grand total of two days.
But that's the same as with prior expansion, so I don't see that as this expansion has been lacking, as Vahlnir said. I guess the only other difference that I didn't mention is relic, but meh, it'll be here when it gets here. And considering the only relic I ever finished is SMN's HW relic during SB, it's not exactly a priority of mine.

Nonetheless, the context of my original win-win statement is for people who have other games to play. If you don't have other games to play or activities to do when not playing FFXIV, then I wasn't talking about you.