Quote Originally Posted by Avidria View Post
It isn't about selfishness or entitlement. Every single person playing this game is paying for the same access, and has exactly the same amount of freedom to do whatever they want while they're online. None of those people are obligated to give up playing so anyone else can, and to be blunt it isn't up to anyone else what they're doing with that play time - the only people who get to dictate that are Square Enix themselves (beyond obvious things like, y'know, not doing things that break rules or are illegal. Obviously.)
Being equally blunt, that's a poor argument when the company cannot PROVIDE everyone with 'the same access', nor should I be obligated to give up playing entirely just so they can have 15 hour sessions. I am paying for equal time, I want equal time within my means to use it. See? That argument goes both ways. When resources are abundant and unlimited, that's attitude is *fine.* When they are scarce, it is *not fine.*

Imagine going to an amusement park and wanting to get on the hot new ride, queueing up in the line, only to discover after about an hour it's only moving at like 10% of the speed it should realistically move at. And then you discover the reason for that is because half the people on the ride continue to ride it over and over and over, and the staff aren't kicking them off, and then when you complain the people in line say "well, they paid as much for their tickets as we all did." and then shrug at you. The notion that any single human being on the planet is going to be acceptable with that answer is just laughable. The reason that it works the way it does - you get "so much time" then you get back in line if you want more - is because that is the means that has long since been accepted as the most equitable way to distribute a resource of that type when everyone's paying the same amount for "access."

To reject any attempt to inject any equity into the situation is selfishness and entitlement. It's done out of the notion of "well someday, it'll be my turn to ride the ride as much as I want to until I'm sick of it." Yeah, except you forgot the key part - the same people who can't join the line until it's longest probably also have to be home by midnight.

but I'd frankly rather wait for the servers to chill out naturally than deal with a forced limit on how long I can play the game.
That's nice that you're fine with that, but I'm not and I'd prefer they implement something to more equitably distribute the burden of having to queue amongst the playerbase.