Who are you kidding really?

The biggest thing they did was add an auto-attack. OOoooOOooOOooo...

After XIVs release XI has had a boatload of game wide xp balancing while introducing new events and completely new areas and storyline quests with new weapon upgrading systems and game changing inventory management options.

During that time the biggest patch to XIV has been the one that made the menus lag less.
FFXI = 200k+ paying subscribers fronting up $12.99? per month in a game that's a success and 4 years into full profits mode.

FFXIV = ZERO paying subscribers.

Hmm I can't possibly see why one game would be getting more content.