I head a quote from A Borderlands 2 designer that went thusly "We want you guys to have fun and to kill you off just because we thought it would be funny isn't really conducive to fun since being extremely frustrated about forced death is usually not fun..."
You guys (the dev team) want us to have fun.... don't you? You don't want us to be frustrated... and angry... and break stuff..?
This may seem like it has nothing to do with FFXI. I shall now explain how it has EVERYTHING to do with, at least one system, in FFXI.
The random augment system. There is this argument, which I do not understand. Some people love 'random' augments because they believe if we have a random augment system, the dev team will make them more powerful. This is a useless time sink. Just yesterday I was ranting at my monitor, after I used a total of 12 verdi stones +1 to get..... -2% PDT on some cizin gloves that I HATE HATE HATE HATE the STUPID BLANKETY BLANKETY BLANK RANDOM AUGMENT SYSTEM, and my husband says very calmly, you just hate it because you have terrible luck. WHY is it that a game I have been paying for, for 10 years now, mind you, has a system where I have to sit there for hours doing medial **** when someone else, that has been playing for a month, can get on and get something on the first **** try??? This system is terrible. Please never ever ever ever do it again, just get rid of it all together. No one is going to mind getting an augment they want on THE FIRST TRY.
On the positive side of things.... I ADORE what you have done with the 'delve' armor. Letting us pick our path and upgrade things as we see fit. You get even more 'points' for letting us make multiple armors for different jobs. Bravo!
Now please to make it the same for every other 'augment able' piece of armor in the game.