Quote Originally Posted by Aidorouge View Post
I've only been playing for two years, I can't exactly have memories for a time I wasn't here for.

Though none of what else you said helps matters, because it just means I was outright lied to regarding not only the cadence of content and how much of it is actually casual (I would not count Extremes or Field Operations for example as some do), but it means you and others even MORE reason to be upset because I'm only going through one badly paced expansion when some of you have gone through several for a DECADE.

How the hell do the rest of you people put up with this? How did this game even last until now?
There will be more casual content but it comes later in the expansion.

There was a better mix of content earlier in the expansion prior to Shb. That was the turning point when things started getting pushed really far back into the expansion release cycle but it was always at least somewhat like this.

There are a few reasons that people have put up with it until now. For one, Yoshi-P and the rest of the team accrued a huge amount of goodwill from the community due to the dedication and hard work that was put in to turn things around after 1.0. People were generally willing to give them a pass when they slipped up because they were trying their best and everyone makes mistakes.

The game was also generally a lot more complex and things were more time consuming in the early days, so content tended to last a bit longer.

Stormblood was also an absolutely stacked expansion. Between things like the ultimate raids and Eureka there was a huge amount of content that people didn't finish at the time and they had that to go back to when they had less to do later. Heavensward was kind of rough and Stormblood turned things around and then some. That expansion was a huge W for the devs.

Shadowbringers was released during COVID, so they got a pass for the entirety of that expansion because everyone knew that COVID will have certainly affected development and things would obviously get better again later.

Endwalker was when people really started to become a bit more critical. They couldn't really use COVID as an excuse any more and people were starting to run out of old content to go back to when the new content didn't last.

Now we're in Dawntrail and the people who have been around for a while are basically all out of old content to plug the gaps with and all that goodwill is starting to fade as people feel like they've been playing Shb for the best part of 6 years.