There are free games with larger and more frequent patch content

[PaulusHamsteru]

Go and play something else then? Nobody is bound to playing Final Fantasy XIV forever and there's plenty of other live service/MMO titles that'll meet your desires. I can't say I'm a fan of how Square Enix communicate everything, but it's clear they've got a primary target audience in mind and a lot of forum complainers seemingly aren't in that group.

What a dumb post.

[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.

[Avoidy]

Shoot, there're private servers (for other games, not XIV) running purely on donations that have more frequent content releases and events than this game. Three hours of stuff every 4 months at 15 dollars a month is so bad; you're being robbed. And I don't care if WoW does it too; if that's the case, then WoW's ripping their people off as well.

[FudoMyoo]

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.

Go play something that makes you happy, unsub. Come back next expansion or something.

[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.

[xbahax92]

gO aNd PlAY SoMeThINg ELsE

As if critics don’t already do that.
People take hiatus and come back for a patch with just a week's worth of content. Nice how they're milking those subs.

It’s even funnier when the game forces you to log in because of the housing system.

[ACE135]

Shoot, there're private servers (for other games, not XIV) running purely on donations that have more frequent content releases and events than this game. Three hours of stuff every 4 months at 15 dollars a month is so bad; you're being robbed. And I don't care if WoW does it too; if that's the case, then WoW's ripping their people off as well.

You payed for the patch content already when you bought the expansion. The 15 Dollar a month are for access to the servers.

[All_Nonsense]

There's allways a catch to free games. Either they're paid like osrs and basically bully you into subbing by giving u nothing or they're just empty with 1 dimenal content cycles

And yet Honkai Star Rail has given me more (and far far higher quality) story, events, and new things to do in 2024 than FF14 has in 2 years. I've spent $0 and gotten so much for it, it's kind of ridiculous. There's no need to get into "well they do this while sweet angel FF14 does this" because at the end of the day the result is all that matters from a consumer perspective. The MMO portion (social aspects, standard appeal of basic MMO structure) is the only thing that's keeping me subbed, because tbh I don't feel like I can get it anywhere else like I get it here. That's....not a great reason for people to stay subbed, so people are unsubbing lmao. Don't feel like you need to go to bat for the billion dollar company - you should expect them to provide you with a service equivalent to what you're paying. When they stop doing that, stop paying for it. People come here to complain because they see something they love eroding away and they desperately don't wanna see WoW2, Destiny 3, or PSO2:NG2 happen.

Also, in terms of how they spend our sub money - I read their earnings reports and I see where the money I'm paying them is going. I can even calculate approximate dollar values that I personally contributed to the development of projects outside of FF14, and I gotta say I'm not really pleased with how it's looked these past 2 years. So if I feel compelled to say something don't you think it's my right? Once HSR starts charging me a sub I'll start to care more what they do w/ that game. That's the difference you're missing.

[Doki]

For all the Go Play Something Else folks:
I already play other games while waiting for more stuff here. It's just getting spread more and more thin.
I pay a monthly sub FOR THIS GAME. I have over a decade invested in a character I like. They announce interesting content over a year in advance and then we just sit on our hands waiting on most of it to drop.

If I go play something else and don't play this:
I could lose my FC house to inactivity
I could miss even more PvP items that disappear never to return again

[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.