Interim Report – Sorry to keep you all waiting!

[Arcon]

Speaking from experience, this is what I do every time I log in, and I too have given up. Even when I could get 6/6, it was a crap shoot whether your tank actually had the first clue what tanking was, your Thief had any clue what "pulling" or "SATA" meant, etcetera.

You do realize that this is precisely what old EXP was? A bunch of noobs not knowing how to play properly, frustration of not finding good members, or members at all, bad or restrictive party setups. And you were just lucky they didn't leave because of LS activities, nothing more, because that's also something that happened all the time during old EXP parties. And that wasn't old EXP's fault, because it still happens, only now the remaining party members are not penalized as much for it.

You ask us what right do we have in asking others who are enjoying themselves to change for us? My response is: What right did you or anyone have in taking the game away from us in the first place?

SE had the right, because it's their game, not yours.

Because nobody complained about rate of progression in the first place, man! Not once in all my years of playing this game, which happened to be the years it was most successful (interestingly enough) did I hear this complaint. People either accepted it for what it was, as a necessary evil or otherwise, or were enjoying themselves.

All of this is a lie. Either that or you played an entirely different game from me. Not only did I hear people complain about how slow and boring leveling was, people actually refused to level certain jobs, even if they actually wanted to play them, because it was too much of a pain to level them up.

The game is going to hell atm.

You're aware that people have been spouting this garbage line since 2005?

this game worked pretty well for 6~?years without abyssea and people enjoyed it and dont tell me they didnt, "grinding" was the main part of the game back then and people woudnt have done it if they didnt enjoy it [..]

All of this is completely wrong. The game did not "work well" for six years, the playerbase has been declining for most of the six years before Abyssea as well. And no, EXPing was not the main part of the game, that was never true. You're completely delusional if you believe that. And yes, people do level despite hating it. Take me for example. I hated every moment of it, and I still went through it, because my goal was a different one, I wanted to play the jobs at 75. Leveling was a necessary evil I had to take upon me to be able to do that.