It's a personal decision. I'm still attached to the game so I'm fine paying, but I am completely aware my subscription spend is worth less now than it was before they expanded the release cycle.

I had similar arguments with people on the ESO forums who wanted to tell me them cutting content in half, and now not doing annual Chapters at all, is a great thing. Instead it really is just paying the same for less and less.

The feeling of drought feels immense, as even the most casual of us can get through content in a month at most from the patches. Month 2 I can still treadmill some gear upgrades, but by month 3 I'm just logging in to keep my house which doesn't feel great. Anything over 3 months I start to feel resentment, and Moogle events don't make up for it.

Again this criticism comes as a supporter of XIV - I'd rather tell them how I feel about this than pretend everything is fine.