There are free games with larger and more frequent patch content

[BunnyReaper]

I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't want gatcha MTX nonsense either, but 25 minutes of (at this point) cut & paste quest design once every few months is gettin old.

So you want to be burnt out faster and you want quantity over quality? Seriously, go play something else. Come back when there is content, I like the way it is, it gives me time to either play something else and finish games I wanted to finish for a long time. And there is a lot of stuff to do, in game.

[BunnyReaper]

Are frequent patches even a good thing? I want less maintenance days. Make the patches count and we won't need more of them.

No they wouldn't be because we would be getting quantity over quality. (Not that DT has been quality, to be fair)

[ovIm]

See? This guy gets it. Although Final Fantasy XIV is the thing keeping the company afloat despite all their bad decisions, and I think even the C-suite there knows it. How will they fund their next trend-following get-rich-quick boondoggle if they don't have their trusty piggy bank making money to fund them?

You misunderstand me, I'm afraid. My fear is that, if sub numbers tumble, the company will have even less reason to fix their money maker, and instead try to establish a new one. You know how it goes in this market, make product, enshitificate product, make new product...

So you want to be burnt out faster and you want quantity over quality? Seriously, go play something else. Come back when there is content, I like the way it is, it gives me time to either play something else and finish games I wanted to finish for a long time. And there is a lot of stuff to do, in game.

You have gone off the other deep end, my guy. OP has never said they want quantity over quality, just a bit more to warrant subscription money. This game would be healthier if it had more gameplay content.

And you state that DT is lacking quality too:

No they wouldn't be because we would be getting quantity over quality. (Not that DT has been quality, to be fair)

So, according to you we are getting neither quality nor quantity. And customers should be happy to pay for that because then they can play other games?

There are people of this game, fans of this game, that want to play this game, spend time in it. Think about what may happen if more and more fans leave this game? There is a reason Yoshi-P has asked people not to retire, because more long lived content is coming.

[Renaclock]

Can you give any example of games that adds more content?
In my experience most games I play,the update will add either new raid with no where near the quality of raids in xiv or hard mode of existing boss or something like that.
They can feel like theres alot to do than xiv but thats because the system around the content.
In most of other games you need to grind for gear with random stats,then upgrade them,and you have to do most of the contents to get access to new content.
Some of the newer mmos tends to lock you out from getting a reward so you can't grind the dungeon for hours but wait till next day to reroll.
Like in mmo I used to play you have to got through the content of previous patches to do content of new patches so if you didn't get the BiS in last update you need to get them first and catch up.
This make it so every single player will do almost every thing that gets added to the game but in xiv you don't need to do EX,24man,Tribe quests, anything.
Another thing is the seasonal events. In other mmos I play they are something you'll be doing for the entirety of patch.
Like on christmas they add a new dungeon(reskin of exsisting one with christmas decoration) that drops present box and you get random rewards like cosmetics,items so everyone is grinding it untill its gone

[AnnRam]

Yeah, and I used to love Honkai: Star Rail.

It's become such a bloated unplayable madness of a grind, unless you were already fully caught up months ago.

More content doesn't mean better content, and I don't wanna see XIV turn into that kind of trash. Keep in mind this is coming from someone who wishes they returned to the three and a half months between patches.

Please the lies.
Hoyoverse makes billions of dollars by just releasing characters and even then they beg people that haven't log in in months to comeback and gives you x2 exp,drops and even free gems for pulls. SE have NEVER, EVER give you something for free.

In FFIXV you have poor quality content (same copy-paste formula) from 10 years ago and also poor delivery schedule (every 4 or 5 months to add 5 hours of content to the game).

[waruvi]

Go and play something else then? Nobody is bound to playing Final Fantasy XIV forever and there's plenty of other live service/MMO titles that'll meet your desires. I can't say I'm a fan of how Square Enix communicate everything, but it's clear they've got a primary target audience in mind and a lot of forum complainers seemingly aren't in that group.

I tried, but western MMO characters are so ugly and unaesthetically pleasing. I tried a Korean MMO, they got good aesthetically pleasing husbando, but holey moley p2w shenanigans. In the end, where did that bring me? Back to FFXIV... Sad.

[Mistress_Irika]

Go and play something else then? Nobody is bound to playing Final Fantasy XIV forever and there's plenty of other live service/MMO titles that'll meet your desires. I can't say I'm a fan of how Square Enix communicate everything, but it's clear they've got a primary target audience in mind and a lot of forum complainers seemingly aren't in that group.

Done that already for a month. I don't regret the time spent there.
I nearly got sucked up completely over there because of the housing system that is vastly better than what's here.
I ended up running back here, because they do not have pvp in their game whatsosver.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Please the lies.
Hoyoverse makes billions of dollars by just releasing characters and even then they beg people that haven't log in in months to comeback and gives you x2 exp,drops and even free gems for pulls. SE have NEVER, EVER give you something for free.

In FFIXV you have poor quality content (same copy-paste formula) from 10 years ago and also poor delivery schedule (every 4 or 5 months to add 5 hours of content to the game).

They barely give anything in return for people spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on a single character. People have spent more on a single character in a gacha than most people have spent in the entire lifetime of xiv.

[Kaurhz]

Go and play something else then? Nobody is bound to playing Final Fantasy XIV forever and there's plenty of other live service/MMO titles that'll meet your desires. I can't say I'm a fan of how Square Enix communicate everything, but it's clear they've got a primary target audience in mind and a lot of forum complainers seemingly aren't in that group.

How long exactly do you want people to play something else for?

They don't have any target audience whatsoever lmao. Literally none... They are constantly yoyoing between demographics, you could almost turn it into a sport. Right now it's casual and midcore players biting the dirt, but just wait and in 7.45 it will then be the raiders getting absolute breadcrumbs for nearly 12 months.

[angienessyo]

Unless I'm misremembering, I believe we have a similar schedule as WoW.