If it does expand beyond like you say it will, then it might be worth it. But $30 for what might just be the equivalent of 3 new dynamis or limbus zones isn't really worth it, when those zones came free with an expansion that contained a buttload of other content for $20.

I'm not saying that WotG needs an endgame event and comparing that to CoP needing new jobs. I'm just saying that they already are requiring WotG to play Abyssea, and WotG doesn't have an endgame event (though Echoes might be it), so why not make it free? The add ons left a bad taste in my mouth because I was really expecting for $10 each something of the epicness of the main expansion storylines. Instead for $30 we got not even half of what we got for $20 in ToAU or WotG.

We already pay $14 a month for this game. So when they ask for additional money from us I expect something above and beyond what is already offered. Not some piece of equipment and lame storyline filled with tedious quests, or a new dynamis zone. Abyssea may be on the scale of a full expansion, like you say. If it is I'll be happy to pay for it. If it isn't, then I feel it's a slippery slope they're going on, and I fear how this will translate into FFXIV.