Sub runs out in two days.
Honestly? The more I play the game, the more dissapointed I feel, because I keep thinking how they'll eventually solve something just to never have it adressed again.
It made me notice that this game is like the Blumhouse Entertainment of MMOs, they're charging us a monthly sub for the spectacle while investing as few resources as they can. We spend hours upon hours interacting with text boxes in what is basically a Visual Novel with extremely long pauses between events (as in, walking empty spaces), just to be rewarded with the spectacle that are dungeons and trials, we're chasing that carrot. The game is carried hard by Soken's music and the visuals, especially now that the story decayed. Say whatever about the decline of WoW, but it's ironic how it's more of a game than FFXIV.

There's plenty of story heavy games out there, including some FF ones, that have much more gameplay despite having extremely long cutscenes. I'm getting older every day, I have to be selective over what games I play because time is something I won't get back. In the 3-4 hours I take walking from aether current to aether current, from NPC to NPC, just to unlock a Dungeon or Trial, I could be engaging with the mechanics and story of other game that respected my time. I find it sad that I'm getting more enjoyment per time spent on free games like Zenless Zone Zero and Once Human, and spending what I pay for the XIV sub in this third world economy nets me a couple indies that make me feel bad I'm paying so little for something that has more effort put in than this game.