FFXIV is reliable and consistent

[Vespar]

Progression caps exists specifically to force people like you to slow down. SE isn't trying to artificially extend your play time. The tome cap is there to keep people from running 100 dungeons in the first week, getting fully geared in a matter of days, and spending the next few months complaining about how there's nothing to do (source: every MMO ever.)

Well if Im fast about progression then I feel sorry for everyone who plays daily. Because seriously, I play maybe 2hours every other couple of days if Im lucky (due to having a 9mo old that needs attention), and in 2 months I just finally managed to i380 two jobs and i360 a third (mostly thanks to Eureka). Still working on that third one (accessories). None of my jobs will see i390 until after 4.5. But before I had a kid, I played a lot more and had little to show for it as well because the locks forced me to keep two jobs relevant and forgo all else and then just go play other games anyways....

[DrWho2010]

Well if Im fast about progression then I feel sorry for everyone who plays daily. Because seriously, I play maybe 2hours every other couple of days (due to having a 9mo old that needs attention), and in 2 months I just finally managed to i380 two jobs and i360 a third (mostly thanks to Eureka). Still working on that third one (accessories). None of my jobs will see i390 until after 4.5. But before I had a kid, I played a lot more and had little to show for it as well because the locks forced me to play other games anyways....

if everyone played like you there would be no more game because no one would be playing it because they would be done with everything. go play a single player rpg when you have that urge to finish everything by gobbling it all up.

[Vespar]

if everyone played like you there would be no more game because no one would be playing it because they would be done with everything. go play a single player rpg when you have that urge to finish everything by gobbling it all up.

I already do this...(Playing Let's Go Pikachu, Diablo 3, and Darksiders 3, Subnautica etc right now) but you just PROVED MY POINT!
I want to play THIS game... not another. I shouldnt be forced out of playing THIS game because I get locked on content (or rather the ability to progress my characters stats via that content).
And its a fallacy to say there would be no more FFXIV without locks in place. That is probably the farthest thing from the truth... I'd actually play more, as would alot of my friends who quit because they got bored of being stuck waiting for weekly resets... They'd play more too...

[Geigerette]

I have played other games. I played Guild Wars for several years off and on. NWO. NWN. SWtOR. AION. I played World of Warcraft for way more than that, and a couple of the things that really attract me to FFXIV beyond the obvious is player appreciation, reasonable pricing and what seems to be an expeditious rate of incoming content.

I am looking forward to years of satisfying game play from FFXIV and wish for the IP to endure.