EC explains how the current progression system is flawed

[Stanelis]

Reaching the point of why I'm saying all this now. I am not saying SE has to come up with so much content that they wouldn't have to gate at all, that's impossible.

In the burning crusade expansion of wow the content was gated by the completion of each tier of content (eg you had to run normal dungeons to unlock the first raids, the first raids and some heroics dungeons do unlock some more raids, those raids to unlock the later raids...) and the initial content of the expansion lasted for month (if not years) without feeling as a grind, a chore or w/e. You never got bored because you always had a boss to work on (and their difficulty weren't artificially inflated like what we have currently in alexander savage, on average you killed like one or two new bosses per week).

The fact is there was so much content at the expansion release (I'm only talking about what was release for the expansion, not about what was already in the game from wow vanilla) that it kept people playing for month, and there wasn't much grind innvolved (playing FFXIV require to grind way more the content than what wow required back in the day, believe it or not).

SE has to gate heavily stuff in FFXIV due to the tiny amount of content at level 60 in the game.

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

In the burning crusade expansion of wow the content was gated by the completion of each tier of content.

In older WoW expansions it also took significantly longer to level and gear up, you weren't getting epic gear in LFR. It's pretty safe to say older MMOs, including WoW, did a much better job of retaining subs then ALL of the modern MMOs. Only 2 of the Modern MMOs have yet to go free 2 play.

I do think you have some valid points though.

[Omskahn]

SE has to gate heavily stuff in FFXIV due to the tiny amount of content at level 60 in the game.

Which is the crux of the problem. Apparently lots of people dont care though and are quite content, going so far as to say neverreap and a raid that is little more name and a picture in the current game count as end-game.

You're doing your self a disservice by using WoW as an example though, people who play this game lose their minds at the mere mention of it, regardless of the way in which it's used.