Stop with the FOMO

[SquishyPlushie]

Are you going to wedge this same essay into every thread? If the game you want to play is "FFXIV levels 1-89" then that game is finite and you have reached the end of it. You can start over with a new job or alt character, or you can leave it alone and come back when the current endgame has been converted into a non-grind and you can play it straight through.

It is the opposite of timegating – the unwanted grind goes away and the content remains.

That's not meaningful forward progress, that's just rage quitting and starting over.

Adding the lvl 1-89 uncapped gear/currency grind is doable to 90, it's just not done that way for MAU metric reasons because some board in SE is afraid people will quit if they get what they want in a reasonable amount of time rather than waiting around in a timeout corner for loot to extend subscription duration artificially.

Timegate as well as weekly currency+loot drop FOMO has the opposite effect of their intention on me. Apparently other people need to be trolled in order to play or subscribe and won't self admit it though.

Lastly, people dancing around bad faithing discussion topics due to self sunk cost fallacy of the issue described tend to cause rephrasing of said responses to help them understand the problem statement.