How is anyone fine with the 4-month patch delivery schedule?

[Asrun]

I really don’t understand why are you so understanding and forgiving towards the devs.
Sure they need time to breathe, but they are still paid for their work and more people can be hired to keep things going on.

Maybe 2 weeks it’s not a big deal in general, but still I see them talking about releasing the very same contents, or less of it, slower while we continue to have to pay a subscription.
No, I don't think that "letting us unsubscribe" is equal to respecting our time. Give me fine contents on a decent schedule instead, and let me decide if am willing to pay the subscription or drop it to play something else instead.

I also play to other MMO and online games and FFXIV it’s the only one requiring me to pay a monthly subscription and, sadly, it is one the games I play that receive less frequent and less engaging updates.

Do we really wanna talk about the contents that they are going to delivering to us, now at new and slower rate?

Dungeons over the time have become all the same to the point I can’t distinguish them. They are fancy corridors to run forward to meet 3-4 packs of monsters followed by a boss, then repeat till the end.
Unpopular opinion: I much preferred 2.0 dungeons. They had exploration, interactions, puzzles and bosses that require other than dps and dodging aoes.

The same can be said regarding raids. I can’t even tell the difference between raids and trials anymore. It’s all fighting a boss in an arena, just dodging fancy and fancier aoes.

What about the 24man Alliance raids? They are almost pointless nowadays. The mechanics that require us to split in 3 parties (or actually doing something other than killing monsters) are so rare and often meaningless. Every time I run Rabanastre sewer section i think: was all time and effort spent for making this magnificent area just for us to slip down in 3 parties without having to do anything, not even a single click? Where is the gameplay?

Now they are giving us trusts for old dungeons, a nice add, but they are doing this just to have a new selling point to attract new customers. That content is not for us already paying warriors of light/darkness.

Of course they are also giving us new side quests, pvp, relic weapons, beast tribes, trials, ultimate and all of these will be just a small variation of the same old contents that we already had before. Maybe just criterion dungeons will be something new, I hope.

In the last 2 years they made a lot of money with FF14 they could have used that money for turning back to a 3 months patch schedule, like it was during a realm reborn.
Instead they are planning a much needed graphical update, that is coming late for sure (I am looking to you, low resolution textures). And this update seems tailored to be not really substantial, it will be the more convenient for them to make.

Meanwhile, they are slowly delivering us copycats contents because why not?
The community is so kind, forgiving and most of all willing to pay for toned down content delivered in a 4 month patch delivery schedule…