Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
The main reason they do not have 3.5 month intervals anymore is because they don't want to overwork their staff anymore. Preventing burnout and keeping them passionate is quite important and along with this, they enforce holidays on people overworking themselves, rotate roles and allow people to transfer to a different role.

The gap is really quite fine for people who do all of the content; the problem is that most people do not do all of the content so they finish MSQ and then they are done for the rest of the 19-20 weeks until the next patch. Raiders might just do the raids then say they are done. But a smaller minority do all the content for achievements or mounts and are pretty satisfied.
I somewhat disagree here. The content on demand per patch simply isn't enough even if you do everything. 7.3 is only two weeks old and even if you're playing at a snail's pace you will have everything done unless you've deliberately put it off. The sole exception to this is if you play at an incredibly sparse pace, e.g., 1-2 hours a week max. While that definitely is the allotted time some players have, it's a comparable extreme to those putting in 30+ hours.

It should also be noted that it isn't necessarily the amount of content which is the problem, but rather the lack of longevity. Case in point, treasure maps and such are cool, but expecting that to carry you for 4-5 weeks is pushing it. Especially if Cosmic Exploration isn't to your flavour. Which, considering the drop off rate a mere week later was enormous. I'd hazard a guess in saying most people didn't vibe with it. So treasure maps are now carrying the load for over two months. Yes, there's the EX and Unreal, but for non raiders those aren't content. Even if you do dabble, the Unreal is two kills per week while the EX is 50 runs or however long your sanity lasts trying to farm beyond that for a sub 5% drop rate.

They seem to cause more problems than they solve. Plus I heard of a cheat system that was implement within a monitor itself, technically independent from the computer, making it impossible to detect. People will always find a way around it and all it ends up doing is making it annoying to login or false positives. In any case, they see it as going against privacy laws in various countries.
To be blunt, we've long since moved past the point of no return regarding third party stuff. The sheer number of downloads has far exceeding it being worth the risk for SE. Just to put this into perspective, one brought up recently on the discussion reddit has 5 million downloads. And that's only the third most popular one; fourth if you count parsers. What they're doing now is the only solution they will ever implement.