Quote Originally Posted by Saraide View Post
SE's logic seems to be to encourage taking breaks but still continuing to pay them money.
Something like that, I tend to call it the "Gym Membership" business model

Honestly, it would work out a lot better if the player culture was as friendly to break-taking as Yoshida is, but FFXIV as it is has such a tendency to make content lulls even more palpably extreme than they actually are: most endgame content has such a strong "rush it or forget it" community mindset that almost regardless of your player level, you're forced kicking and screaming along with the curve if you don't want to wait for everything to be completely trivialized down to "maybe even easier than DF" level.

So if you're hardcore, naturally you rush the content as soon as it comes out and then have nothing much material to do, but if you have a house you gotta pay sub and log in regularly to keep it even so.

If you're a middling endgame player, you still have to rush the content as soon as it comes out, otherwise Duty Complete says hi and you'll live a life of frustration and fuming unless you back burner it for the rest of the patch. And so, you, too, have nothing much material to do, but if you have a house, you gotta pay sub and log in regularly to keep it.

If you're a super casual player, then you barely have any endgame content to do once you finish MSQ. In fact, getting and decorating a house is most of it! But despite the sporadic pace of other things to do, you gotta pay sub and log in regularly to keep it.

Everyone loses it seems, except for maybe the RP crowd ...