Play other games :)

[Zebraoracle]

All while conveniently ignoring that if you like say, raiding but only want to jump in later on in a tier's lifespan that you're now far behind in a capped currency that will have you waiting weeks to even "catch up". Or they'll ignore that the drip feed nature of content releases means if you aren't on the bandwagon quickly, you'll struggle to find people still doing said content. Funny enough those same people will then complain themselves how everyone "rushes!!" content and now they also can't find queues/people. The irony, of course, being lost on them that people took the very advice constantly echoed: they played the content they enjoyed then wait ahead with other content or started playing different games.

Funny that.

I've never understood the whole "FF14 respects your time" statement at all for exactly the reasons you stated. It makes no sense to me. Freaking WoW, in my view, respects your time more, albeit marginally.