Him not being able to wait for the game got him into FFIV. But it is well known that all you need to do with drugs is try them. Just because you think you can stop whenever you feel like doesn't mean it will happen.
I think the process of "No, MMOS can't fill the hole I need The Witcher 3 now"
"Fine, I'll play some MMOs to pass the time before the Witcher"
"Fuck the Witcher, FF14 all day."
is HILARIOUS
Everything Pat does has to be potent and addicting.
I don't know why he is so surprised whenever he can't stop playing something.
It'll die down once we get to the end of the expansion content, I feel.
As it stood when he started playing he had the entire base game to go through, and THEN 6 major patches worth of content to go through after finishing the base game's storyline. I tallied it up when I was at the end of patch 2.2 and I had 64 main scenario quests left, and I still have 35 main scenario quests to go, and I'm about halfway through patch 2.4's scenario. (And you need to finish these to access the expansion.)
I still haven't even done World of Darkness or started the Final Coil of Bahamut yet, either, which aren't required to access the expansion but are still large swathes of content. (World of Darkness is a 24 person raid, Coil is 8 person raids)