Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
I agree because it used to be 3.5 and is now 4.38 to 4.6 months. There were always long gaps between patches and there were always people who complained about it, even in Stormblood.

It always hinges on if said people have content that they are personally interested in, and if they burned through it faster than the majority of players or not. What affects it a lot is that SE makes content for different types of players in different patches, so that many players actually have to wait multiple patches for the content they like.
Even in Heavensward. And what's enough content can often be subjective. Look at Chaotic. There are some people who could be kept busy for months with content like that. But others who want to run it and get all the rewards and be "done" with that content and then expect another new thing that they prefer to do to be available to them. Everyone praises Eureka but I noped out in Pagos because I was bored out of my mind with that place and if I didn't have my own gaming goals I set for myself I would have been bored as hell in Stormblood because my long-term content at that point was relics. And then they put out content trying to experiment like Island Sanctuary or Variant/Criterion but players want to be "done" so they eat through it in no time. I'm not saying there can't be something new and interesting here and there, but we've always gotten to a point where we needed to either find our own goals or decide not to play as much, and for some of us that's sooner than with others. And it happens sooner the more we limit the content we engage with.