Please grow the MMO part of the game. End game is lousy.

[DPZ2]

Who is we? I have probably played this game longer than you have. I can tell you now, it used to have a lot more casual content, and a lot more harder content. It pretty much appeased everyone. Now there just isn't content. I am not really understanding how you can defend this by saying they aren't turning this into WoW. You have to have content to retain a player base. People left WoW because there was not enough content, and the content they added was just a endless grind.

Having spent over a decade playing World of Warcraft (from BC through BFA) and having spent over seven years playing Final Fantasy XIV, I can safely say this game is nothing much like WoW, nor is it in danger of becoming WoW. People left WoW because the only content that mattered was raiding and Mythic dungeons. You could skip every. single. dungeon. instance. in the game safely while leveling ... believe me, I had one of each class, Alliance and Horde-side, at level 110 when I started to give up. The BFA storyline didn't help.

WoW was a grind. But it came from an era when every MMORPG was a constant grind. Don't get me started about Zevhra hoofs ...

Now, WoW is a just a quick hop, story skip and level jump to Endgame(tm). Doesn't help that they retconned every expansion and book (and man, there were sooooo many books) out of existence in their latest escapades -- for which I blame BFA and the subsequent Travesty that exists now for the Exodus.

This game, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, has a well-planned schedule of content patches, designed for those people who are not particularly concerned about raiding every week until the next patch comes out.

The first two years of ARR were chock-full of things you might remember fondly mostly because the developers weren't sure what would stick. They certainly became more comfortable with scheduling (and finding what didn't stick) during Heavensward.

The game has lots of content. It just isn't content that you, specifically, wish to consume. And that's ok. Square Enix isn't that concerned that you maintain a constant subscription. When the content you're specifically looking for has been consumed, their attitude is "Take a break. Go do something else."

You can take it from someone who is certainly older, if not wiser, than you: "There is more to life than a single MMORPG". There are multiple MMORPGs to play concurrently! And single-player games! And, um, books and music and Netflix and ...