"I'm waiting until 7.3 to see if I'll quit"

[Catwho]

Yeah, I don't know why everyone is expecting 7.3 to "fix the game" when no one can actually agree on what is wrong with the game to begin with.

While the forums are full of complaints that the content is too easy, out away from this echo chamber I regular run with a group of people who believe that even normal content is inaccessible to people with certain disabilities.

While the forums are full of complaints that there isn't enough content to grind, I'm a member of a dozen different Discords for the older grindy content like fishing, field operations, deep dungeons, etc.

While the forums are full of complaints about the story of 7.0 and certain characters, one of my social linkshell members (who doesn't go on YouTube, Twitch, or the official forums because she's a novelist and has no time) is a WoL/Wuk shipper. She couldn't understand the hate for a character just because people disliked the VA casting choice. Yeah, Wuk fans do exist. Just like a Pokémon, there is someone out there who ships their WoL with EVERYONE.

While the forums are full of complaints about the extended patch cycle, those of us who have been playing since 2.0 launch are all like "it has always been this way. what are you talking about?" They tacked on two extra weeks for QA, and things definitely got jacked up during COVID because no one in SE had the capacity to work from home, but the patch cycle is not substantially different from how it's been for over a decade.

All of this is to say that: If you have a specific grievance with the game that isn't Viera/Hroth hats, 7.3 probably ain't gonna resolve it.

If you're not having fun now, then let your personal house go and go take a break and come back with the new expansion like some of my college buddies will do. They'll quit for 2 years, come back two months before the new expansion drops, catch up on patch content, get a class geared for the next 10 levels, and then do the expansion with us. When they are done with the base expansion story, they quit again and go play other games while patches X.1-X.5 come out. (I was passed the FC ownership because I don't quit and I'm the anchor that holds our house down.) Sometimes specific content comes out that one of them wants to try and we'll see them hop on for a month or two, and then they go back to whatever other games they were playing or whatever other IRL thing they were doing.