It's a real shame that the game is held back in many ways by it's own community at times. FFXIV has a lot of potential to be so much more than it is. The game isn't terrible, but there's been a notable drop in the amount of content we're getting combined with a lack of staying power for what we do get.

It's rather baffling to me that the response to people asking for more content that has staying power ends up being to go and play other games because Yoshi-P happened to say that in an interview a while back. At a time where the game wasn't in the situation it is in at present.

I suppose I'll cross my fingers and hope that 5.3 has more meat to it and remains relevant for longer.