To: Mr Akihiko Matsui

[Merton9999]

...To a year? Are you serious? To level 20? Did I read that right, because if I did, I'd take up the challenge right now to level WHM solo 1-75 in less than six months without a book. Besides, isn't that what RPG's have always been known for, taking up lots of time? If that's not the type of game you have the time/patience to play, then what are you doing here in the first place?

Who felt duped? Who are you speaking for? Ten years or 10,000, it doesn't matter; What I enjoy just might be the same that many more do, as well.

To level a single job OF 20. I could have stated it as "to level a single job, out of 20 possible jobs, to level 75." I don't remember my RPGs for taking up time. I remember them for stories, memorable characters and ability and equipment progression, all of which can still be enjoyed in FFXI. If RPGs were based solely on the necessity to take up exorbitant amounts of time, then I'd drop them today. I'll apply patience to my career and family. I'll treat my games like I do my nights at the bar with friends. I'd leave the bar if it took 6 months to get my beer and they made me work for it. Thankfully SE made a world where I can still have the unique experience with friends and family in a FF world and treat it like a game.

I'm glad you enjoyed the old stuff for 10 years. I wish more people would just say they enjoyed it and leave it at that. But you're not. You're making statements that if people don't enjoy it anymore then they have bad work ethics, don't work for their achievements, and shouldn't be playing. It's shallow, narrow-minded and silly.

[Eyeballed]

To level a single job OF 20. I could have stated it as "to level a single job, out of 20 possible jobs, to level 75." I don't remember my RPGs for taking up time. I remember them for stories, memorable characters and ability and equipment progression, all of which can still be enjoyed in FFXI. If RPGs were based solely on the necessity to take up exorbitant amounts of time, then I'd drop them today. I'll apply patience to my career and family. I'll treat my games like I do my nights at the bar with friends. I'd leave the bar if it took 6 months to get my beer and they made me work for it. Thankfully SE made a world where I can still have the unique experience with friends and family in a FF world and treat it like a game.

I'm glad you enjoyed the old stuff for 10 years. I wish more people would just say they enjoyed it and leave it at that. But you're not. You're making statements that if people don't enjoy it anymore then they have bad work ethics, don't work for their achievements, and shouldn't be playing. It's shallow, narrow-minded and silly.

What I'm trying to get across is, this game was fashioned around a style of play that I, for one, enjoyed participating in.

I think it would be easier to accept if we had some alternative that is much more XI circa 2005 than WoW. It's like getting a basketball for your birthday because your parents know you like basketball because you play it so often, but one day you come home and the basketball's gone and been replaced with a cricket bat. You're left standing there, hands out, mouth agape, with this stunned look on your face. Cricket: The new Basketball.

[Merton9999]

What I'm trying to get across is, this game was fashioned around a style of play that I, for one, enjoyed participating in.

And I respect that immensely. I'll cheer you on as you shout what you love to do from the rooftops. Sorry the game isn't like that for you now. But owning your preference for a video game world doesn't require passing it off as the official definition of RPGs everyone else should accept or gtfo.

What exactly is stopping people from gathering up for some days of 70-75 fun page-less and ring-less in KRT? Is it frustrating because they can't find more people that want to do that so they want SE to force it on everyone for their benefit? This goes beyond personal preference to changing everyone else's game, and that I don't respect.

[Eyeballed]

This goes beyond personal preference to changing everyone else's game, and that I don't respect.

Just like Abyssea has, for us?

[Trisscar]

Just like Abyssea has, for us?

In what way? The ability to do old school partying is still there. You'll simply be doing it forever alone, as you deserve.

[Merton9999]

Just like Abyssea has, for us?

Sure it has, but when did I pass off Abyssea as the canonical RPG definition, or say if you don't enjoy it then leave? It's not peoples' preferences I have issues with. I'll contribute a vote for keeping the game the way it is now, realizing others won't like it. I won't try to make the fact that I like fast xp so I can enjoy what I see as the actual game now on a variety of jobs as a moral crusade on work ethics.