As it is right now, FFXI has the fastest leveling method that even tops World of Warcraft. You can breeze through it assuming you did all your limit breaks already in a few days, or even one day if you keep on trucking. The good thing is, you don't really need to subscribe every month, just 3-4 months every year whenever a good update is released. Play for 1 month every 3 months or so. Or play for 2 months every 4 months if you choose. We all can see that every new contents are designed to halt progress for at least a good one year before they ease up the gated wall and adjust it so that "almost" everyone can try it. Instead of boiling with rage or trying to come up with creative ideas, which they usually ignore, all of our rants (positive or negative) are never really being taken seriously anyway - we can just ignore the crappy contents, take a few months off, and come back again whenever we see some adjustments. We always come back right?