[SUGGESTION] Severe weekly gating is destroying my love of this game

[Bilky]

I feel like I'm in a constant uphill battle with this game. I don't mind that progression is drawn out, I can handle that. But this weekly gating with zero recourse to amend a mistake is enough to make me uninstall and never look back. I have zero doubts that this practice is in fact designed to prolong subscriptions (i.e. $$$), but I refuse to believe there's no better way to keep people engaged in their progress and continuing to sub each month.

Yes, I just accidentally clicked greed in Dun Scaith. And now I have a useless item for a level 22 character that I have no intentions of getting to 60 any time soon. Why? Because I want to have fun with my games, not have them feel like some tedious job that I don't even get paid for. Yes, this is entirely my fault. Yes, I understand all that. But I don't want to make this post about why I have no right to amend this mistake. It's about the horrible system that makes such a mistake so devastating.

I truly do love this game. It's so gorgeous, the mechanics are rich and complex, they haven't succumbed to the temptation of pay2win. But put in contrast with this horribly frustrating weekly system... I feel like I'm being forced to do things I don't want to do, simply because I can do no more of the things I actually want to do.

I'm starved for new and interesting content. The worst part is that it's right there already, in the game. I just can't access it because I've got to spend every week progressing my character to a point where I can actually access the new content. I wasn't playing since day one. I have breaks, holidays, etc. Losing one weeks' Dun Scaith drop means another week I have to wait to play something new and interesting.

It means another week of monotonously repetitive Beast Tribe Quests; another week of the same handful of dungeons over and over; another week of rushing to get all my dailies done so that I can get slightly closer to something new. I feel like 90% of my time is spent bored out of my mind, all for the sake of that 10% of truly entertaining content. Out of the 20-odd hours I'd play each week, maybe one or two of those didn't feel like work. But that 10% was so good that it made it almost worth it.

I'm seriously questioning now whether it is, in fact, worth it. There are so many other games out there that I would enjoy 99% of my time playing. I love the FF franchise, and I love(d) this iteration of it. It makes me really, really sad to feel this way about something I loved for so long.