Quote Originally Posted by brinn12 View Post
FFXIV has been following the same formula for a decade, with its lead director encouraging players to try other games when they feel bored, rather than providing more content to keep them engaged. Each new piece of content has required longer patches. It's no secret that the game could fall back to pre-Shadowbringers numbers and still remain financially sustainable for Square Enix.
I think we've finally reached and acknowledged the extremes people will go to that dev teams faced the simple reality that it is physically impossible to produce enough "content" to keep some people engaged. They can spend 2 years developing a full expansion MSQ with over 60 hours of gameplay, and some people will finish it in a week and then complain there's "nothing to do." Put simply - those people made themselves irrelevant, even when they love to get really vocal. Society has done what it always does - changes - and now the focus isn't on people who want to make MMO's their life, but rather one small part of it complemented by other diversions.