Quote Originally Posted by Havenchild View Post
They don't specifically market the game to casual or hardcore players. If anything, XIV is known more for it's MSQ story, not hardcore raids. They do however release a lot of battle content overall which is what literally carries activity in the game long term. That falls anywhere between a Normal dungeon to an Ultimate raid.
But that makes the behaviour you are excusing problematic, doesn't it? If they are only releasing content for the higher end of the raid scene, patch after patch, keeping mum about the finer details of the release schedule, pretty much starving everyone who plays this game for other things, but they are still marketing to a broad audience.. see the problem there?