Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
To be fair, many people have taken breaks. Some spanning months. Your response was "take an even longer break!" At what point does it become a fault of the design having very little longevity? Or are people expected to take a full year off so they aren't rushing?

Don't get me wrong. This delay is due to unique circumstance which are completely understandable. It still shows the design flaw of the content as a whole. Hence why people are critical of it. You don't have to agree but constantly saying "TAKE BREAKS!" isn't a good answer, especially when they do.
The devs are never going to be able to create content faster than players consume it. It's just never going to happen. People are going to run out of things to do, and no content can be fun forever when you're pounding it week after week.

Taking breaks is a good answer, and if they never come back? Well they'll certainly be missed, but people deserve better than to spend their leisure time with something they no longer have fun with.

Not to say that this game is flawless, but running out of content isn't a design flaw. If you've played FFXIV only for 2 hours a day on weekends only, you've still got significantly more out of your time/money than 95% of other media.

Expecting FFXIV to entertain you year round without end is unreasonable. Humans are designed to get bored of doing the same thing over and over again.