Quote Originally Posted by Tsurayu View Post
I like how some people keep complaining about this every. single. expansion.

Please let me know another MMO that gives you more, frequent patch content especially right before it's next expansion. I'll wait.

Seriously though, what an asinine complaint. Pure selfishness. Heaven forbid the developers take the final months leading up to the release of an expansion to -- oh I don't know -- tweak, play test, make sure it is a relative smooth launch. Also gives players the chance to catch up content throughout the expansion before being thrust into new content. It's not as though there is a single player in this game who has even come close to doing all the content available. You can literally go do any number of other things while you are waiting for launch or even simply play other games while waiting.
People do complain about it every single expansion. So what? - What's the argument? That it's nothing new? Sure.

It doesn't matter if no other MMOs do it better - This is just a driving factor for complacency. I would agree though, few do it better. But many others also have a pretty good culture or other systems in place which still do actively encourage players to continually play the game. - Let's take achievement tokens for example, a great feature on paper (Useless because they do nothing with it) - Also take Moogle Treasure Trove - Completely underrated, and should be integral with cyclic rewards to incentivize continually interacting with it. PvP series is an amazing example, it's continual.

It's not asinine, you just don't agree with it. It's also not selfish either. For better or worse it does come from a place of wanting to see the game improve. What would be selfish though is dismissing it. I would argue many players understand the fact of how monumental the task is, but that doesn't mean they cannot do anything to at least alleviate the content drought many people will encounter. Again, see the first paragraph.