You’re forgetting that this game was programmed into ff14 purely in 1 or 2 developers spare time pretty much for fun. They did it off their work hours and was never really planned to be put in ff14. But over a long period of time they created a working mahjong game in the engine and the team was just like well ok why not put it in the game?

Basically you can complain about it all you want, but it doesn’t change anything else about the development of other “normal” gold saucer mini games, they are still coming and being developed, and mahjong 100% did not obstruct other development decisions related to gold saucer mini games, it is 100% EXTRA mini game given to the gold saucer. So it’s just kinda silly to complain about it you know? Like I tend to avoid the “just don’t play it” argument but really... just don’t play it, you’re still gonna get all that easy going fun shooting mini games you want.