4.5 month patch release is NOT a problem

[BigCheez]

Yes, as if there isn't other content released in the patch that also takes 10-20 minutes. That builds up to where you can easily spend a few hours a day.
It won't. Because this "10 minutes here" and "20 minutes there" builds up to where you've then spent a few hours. And guess how long an average person has after work? Some of those people also have to juggle looking after children, maintaining their house and preparing food.

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...4dd0ed13ce530a

MSQ - 2-3 hours on patch day
Beast tribe - 5 mins per day
Alliance raid - 30 mins per week (realistically, more like 30 mins once)
Unreal trial - 20 mins per week

That was it. Where on earth are you spending multiple hours per day? Once the MSQ was done, there was barely more than 1 hour per week, never mind an hour per day.

I don't understand why we need to have less content because someone else, who may or may not exist, may or may not have children, and may or may not have to look after them. Could Schrodinger's gamer not just play the game less and everyone else can actually get some value for their money in the form of actually having a reason to log into the game? None of this content is even mandatory outside of the 3 hours of MSQ every 4 months. If someone can't find 45 minutes per month to boot a game up then a subscription MMO might not be the best choice of hobby and I don't think it's fair to make that everyone else's problem.

This is the final boss of bad faith arguments. You're doing way too much to defend a multi-billion dollar company doing way too little.