Solutions for Content Drought during between Patches & other solutions for Gameplay

[Jojoya]

Hold on a minute. There's no drought, and yet you tell us to play other games?

There is no drought. Not SE's fault if you decide you don't want to do any of the available content.

When you don't want to do what is available, what's the sensible alternative?

Find another game to play.

See, here's the thing about those "other games": they don't charge $13 a month. A game that charges a monthly fee should consist of a service that lasts an entire month. And no, I don't mean "more hours than people work". I mean the usual gaming hours, like maybe one or two hours a day. The problem is, FFXIV doesn't even have that. It has content you've already completed, and can complete again and again for the exact same drops with the exact same quality at the exact same rate. Everything is the same.

Ever stop to add up how much you end up spending on those other games in a month, even though it's on microtransactions instead of an inclusive subscription?

Your $13 a month absolutely does provide you with what you're paying for - access to the game servers to play the content available on those servers at any time outside of maintenance during that month. No where does it state you will be getting new content every month.

What other games are giving you completely new content every single month that will take a full month to complete?

If you only want new content for your money, then don't subscribe except during months that new content is being released. Or better yet, wait until the x.55 patch to subscribe when all the content for an expansion will have been released. Play through to completion then unsubscribe until the next x.55 patch.

We are being ripped off. Even World of Warcraft isn't like this. Even those other battle pass games aren't like this. We're the only game with this level of cope and denial. Where people make incoherent platitudes like "endless content" while saying we're supposed to "play other games" due to lack of content.

We're not getting ripped off.

I'm a lot happier paying $13/mo for this game than I would be paying $13 at my local movie theater to purchase a single ticket to a single movie that lasts 100 minutes and can only be watched a single time for that $13.

If you don't think you're getting your money's worth, then take your money to another game where you do. It's pretty dumb to keep spending your money month after month on something you think is a ripoff.