This game is on a terrible state right now.

[Deo14]

No, not really. At least, not in the context of what I saying. And you were VERY selective with what you quoted.

Granted FFXIV's content updates have slowed - but that seems to be due, at least in-part, to Devs working on FFXVI. And I think there have been at least two content drops in FFXIV in the time it took the game I used to play to produce a single, 45-minute long, episode.
Nor does FFXIV try to pass gambleboxes off as new content. In fact, the absence of gambleboxes is one of the elements of this game I love.

Furthermore, I can at least say that I know there is a new content drop coming later in the month, as SE advertises it well in advance. I also know that I won't be able to complete the sum total of that content drop in 45 minutes.

If FFXIV development truly slowed because of FFXVI, how's that fine in any shape or form? Is FFXIV second class citizen now? Are we finally going to get more attention now since 16's development is over, or will they again split resources to other games and leave us on the side of the road?

As for your example - is said game WoW/GW2/BDO or similar? Is it even MMORPG or are you comparing apples to trucks? If not, then it's irrelevant. If you really want to try to argue with individual examples, at least say what game it is, otherwise it just seems like you try to hide it, so the people who played that game cannot counter your argument.

As for your gamble boxes - you said it was f2p, so my question is, what do you expect? They give you 45 minutes of story twice a year for free and you complain? Here we pay 15$ a month, base game, cash shop bullshit, retainer subscription bullshit and app subscription bullshit. The fact that these things are optional is irrelevant, MTX in f2p is also technically optional. So after paying some 15$ bucks per month, we get 2 (two) hours of MSQ per 4.5 months and some content which dies in a 1 or 2 weeks. I don't know chief, your f2p game doesn't seem that bad after all.

[SturmChurro]

So after paying some 15$ bucks per month, we get 2 (two) hours of MSQ per 4.5 months and some content which dies in a 1 or 2 weeks. I don't know chief, your f2p game doesn't seem that bad after all.

That is a pretty bad for a free to play. Genshin/Star Rail has Gacha, and Genshin at least has frequent, quality, updates, and a faster schedule than this game. I do agree though, they actually want us to pay a sub here, and we get laughably little for it. Anyone who doesn't have a house has it good, since they can unsub, but then they also don't have a house, so an entire feature they miss out on.

If I had to guess, the game they are referring to sounds like SWTOR, but I haven't played that game in like 7 years. I do know they had infrequent updates, and loot boxes. I heard that a relatively recent update they did was quite short.