No, not male pattern baldness...but a pattern with FFXIV. I am curious if anyone else is similar. It generally goes like this:
1.0 Bought it, played for about a month before running on foot through the black shroud became more than I could handle.
2.0 Bought it, loved it, played through all the coils and through 2.55.
3.0 Bought it, loved the story and music, then around 3.1 stopped playing. I started seeing the pattern around this time...
WENT TO FANFEST! STORMBLOOD ANNOUNCEMENT! SO STOKED!
3.5 Resubbed, caught up on story and ready to tackle stormblood!
4.0 Super happy had a great time with story, and was very excited to get back into savage raiding, etc. After first tier of savage...same thing happened. Started to realize that after the first clear of savage, there's generally no point. The gear would be outdated in a few months anyway so desire to play dropped dramatically after initial clear. Unsubbed...until... SHADOWBRINGERS ANNOUNCEMENT!
4.5 Resubbed, caught up on story and ready to tackle SHADOWBRINGERS! YES!
5.0 Super happy had a great time with story, and was very excited to get back into savage raiding, etc. After first tier of savage...same thing happened. Started to realize that after the first clear of savage, there's generally no point. The gear would be outdated in a few months anyway so desire to play dropped dramatically after initial clear. Unsubbed...until... ENDWALKER ANNOUNCEMENT!
6.05 ...and I am back to being just horribly unmotivated. Only this time, I don't even really want to do savage at all even to just get the clear. I wish just for SOME SORT of permeant horizontal progression system that does not become outdated. Something...anything. It doesn't have to be game breaking. Maybe every billion exp you can add one point to a stat permanently. Something...Anything. I really want to play but I need to know that my time is worth it.

Anyway...that's my story. Am I the only one?