I'm a person of the era of the coin operated games, where you would go into the arcade toss a coin at the machine, play the game then go on with your life. Back then the games were created in a way you would have to put several coins on the machine to achieve the final goal, the ending. You could either toss all your money at the machine or play it slowly and learn the game until you could finish it with a single coin. Both methods would benefit the arcade operator as either way you would end pouring a lot of coins on the game machine.

A MMORPG of the old era is built around the same concept so that's where FFXI is so grindy. They fixed it so the game is more friendly but it killed several aspects of the game play.

I would quit this game, but then I'd miss my friends (Including you, Camiie) lol. I'm staying. And I think bashing SE about the game being stagnant won't help much at all... -_-;

At least they're trying.