There are free games with larger and more frequent patch content

[Connor]

How dare you have *checks notes* a reasonable expectation of competency and consistency from a multi-million dollar company. Those guys in Yoshi-P’s basement work hard to bring us more raid content every 8 months!

[DiaDeem]

Yeah, and I used to love Honkai: Star Rail.

It's become such a bloated unplayable madness of a grind, unless you were already fully caught up months ago.

More content doesn't mean better content, and I don't wanna see XIV turn into that kind of trash. Keep in mind this is coming from someone who wishes they returned to the three and a half months between patches.

[AnnRam]

Yeah, and I used to love Honkai: Star Rail.

It's become such a bloated unplayable madness of a grind, unless you were already fully caught up months ago.

More content doesn't mean better content, and I don't wanna see XIV turn into that kind of trash. Keep in mind this is coming from someone who wishes they returned to the three and a half months between patches.

Please the lies.
Hoyoverse makes billions of dollars by just releasing characters and even then they beg people that haven't log in in months to comeback and gives you x2 exp,drops and even free gems for pulls. SE have NEVER, EVER give you something for free.

In FFIXV you have poor quality content (same copy-paste formula) from 10 years ago and also poor delivery schedule (every 4 or 5 months to add 5 hours of content to the game).

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Please the lies.
Hoyoverse makes billions of dollars by just releasing characters and even then they beg people that haven't log in in months to comeback and gives you x2 exp,drops and even free gems for pulls. SE have NEVER, EVER give you something for free.

In FFIXV you have poor quality content (same copy-paste formula) from 10 years ago and also poor delivery schedule (every 4 or 5 months to add 5 hours of content to the game).

They barely give anything in return for people spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on a single character. People have spent more on a single character in a gacha than most people have spent in the entire lifetime of xiv.

[AnnRam]

They barely give anything in return for people spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on a single character. People have spent more on a single character in a gacha than most people have spent in the entire lifetime of xiv.

Glad I just pay 4.99 usd monthly in ZZZ and have every single 5 star character without spending " thousands of dollars", here some people have spent over 10.000 American dollars in cosmetics/fantasias etc (nothing of real value).

Barely? they even gave for free 5 stars characters and in compensation for EVERY maintenance a few gems even if they mess up with some character or an unintended bug. Here you have nights of DDOS and not even an apologize.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Glad I just pay 4.99 usd monthly in ZZZ and have every single 5 star character without spending " thousands of dollars", here some people have spent over 10.000 American dollars in cosmetics/fantasias etc (nothing of real value).

Barely? they even gave for free 5 stars characters and in compensation for EVERY maintenance a few gems even if they mess up with some character or an unintended bug. Here you have nights of DDOS and not even an apologize.

Wow, 1 game. Now look at Fate GA, the Honkai games, etc.

[Lorika]

Yeah, and I used to love Honkai: Star Rail.

It's become such a bloated unplayable madness of a grind, unless you were already fully caught up months ago.

More content doesn't mean better content, and I don't wanna see XIV turn into that kind of trash. Keep in mind this is coming from someone who wishes they returned to the three and a half months between patches.

It's an Hoyo game.... What did you expect?
When you started playing it you agreed on insane powercreep, abysmal gacha rate and stingy ressource income.

But you know, the difference between CBU3 and Hoyo.... is that Hoyo know what they are doing since they are creating thoses "issue" on purpose.

And the worse, is that Hoyo have way more white knight that don't even want to ear the true than SQ with FFXIV.

Rule of the thumb : if you want to play a gacha go play one made by CyGames or Mica.

[xbahax92]

They're clearly timegating the content. Content which has almost no replayability. It's kinda hilarious.
What worries me most is that people accept it as if it's normal.

If this trend continues, we'll end up with one QoL update every three weeks, new skills every other month, and the expansion's second job arriving after a year.
Customers that never complain, what a good time to be Square Enix.

[BunnyReaper]

I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't want gatcha MTX nonsense either, but 25 minutes of (at this point) cut & paste quest design once every few months is gettin old.

So you want to be burnt out faster and you want quantity over quality? Seriously, go play something else. Come back when there is content, I like the way it is, it gives me time to either play something else and finish games I wanted to finish for a long time. And there is a lot of stuff to do, in game.

[Renaclock]

Can you give any example of games that adds more content?
In my experience most games I play,the update will add either new raid with no where near the quality of raids in xiv or hard mode of existing boss or something like that.
They can feel like theres alot to do than xiv but thats because the system around the content.
In most of other games you need to grind for gear with random stats,then upgrade them,and you have to do most of the contents to get access to new content.
Some of the newer mmos tends to lock you out from getting a reward so you can't grind the dungeon for hours but wait till next day to reroll.
Like in mmo I used to play you have to got through the content of previous patches to do content of new patches so if you didn't get the BiS in last update you need to get them first and catch up.
This make it so every single player will do almost every thing that gets added to the game but in xiv you don't need to do EX,24man,Tribe quests, anything.
Another thing is the seasonal events. In other mmos I play they are something you'll be doing for the entirety of patch.
Like on christmas they add a new dungeon(reskin of exsisting one with christmas decoration) that drops present box and you get random rewards like cosmetics,items so everyone is grinding it untill its gone