I stopped playing this game about a month ago. Not because I didn't enjoy the game, but I got to ilevel 90 with my BLM in 3 months and I really didn't feel like spending another 3 months on each class, so I stopped subbing and decided I'd retry again after the next big patch.

However, I saw patch notes and such about 2.2 and noticed we get new tomes. There was also information about the fact that Coil 1-5 will no longer have lock-outs and Myth Tomes won't have caps, essentially turning Myth gear into the new Philo gear.

This essentially means I spent $45 total to play every week to get the slightest chance to upgrade my gear, yet anyone with a few days spare time can now farm for all the gear I struggled to obtain and get to where I am with very little effort other than boring grinding. The $45 (or 60 if you include the first month of leveling my first class and getting used to the game) all came to me having maybe a weeks headstart on the new content than anyone who just reached level 50.

I'm not against this system and I understand their reasoning. I mean, what's the point in making epic new content if only 1% of the game population is going to get to experience it, with even less being able to experience the next content. I also know that other MMORPG's have used this in the past.

Is this going to happen every 3-6 months, though? Am I going to struggle to obtain all this new gear just to have it unlocked when I'm finished obtaining it so everyone else can obtain it stress-free? I wouldn't mind if it was with every expansion rather than every coil update, but it feels like I might as well wait until 2.4 comes and farm for 2.2's gear and keep doing that.

I'm not angry at the game, nor am I complaining or hoping it'll bend to my will or anything, I'm just wondering if this is a game I want to keep investing in. I wouldn't mind if it was a F2P MMORPG, but spending money for weeks of playtime to gain gear only to have it obtainable in a few days later on feels like a bad use of my money, is all.

If this is the case I won't be able to re-sub, but I wish the game all the luck in the world and hope it doesn't fail. I really enjoyed my 3 months of playing. Probably the most fun I've had in an MMORPG when it came to end-game and I'm a huge lover of the FF series as a whole. The money I've spent so far has felt worthwhile, so I don't regret playing.

Sidenote: If anyone in my FC reads this, I kind-of forgot to say I wasn't playing anymore, so... yeah. Woops.