Quote Originally Posted by Eyeballed View Post
How funny that people who might have complained stuck with a game they didn't like. I wager that what complaints you did hear were those who moaned about never getting invites on unpopular jobs more than anything to start with. That is what I've heard. What I have to say about that is I took at least MNK and THF to 75, typically having no trouble at all getting a group because I took the initiative to make something happen for myself. "I waited DAYS for an invite on my DRG!!!" Keyword: Waited; Well there's your problem there, skipper!
I found leveling White Mage in pick-up groups miserable for the 50-75 stretch because of how misinformed and esoterically equipped 90% of the melee were, even relative to the limited knowledge available at that time. There were a lot of people who were so dense that, even to me on my first job going to 75 for the first time, it was obvious they were retarding progress. As the healer, all I could do to make them flail around less horribly was cast Haste and Dia II. It was infuriating.

I stuck it out because end-game looked interesting for support jobs, even if watching a handful of mental invalids fail to efficiently kill various species of crabs killed something deep inside of me.

That was my subjective experience. Your subjective experience is that you enjoyed leveling up by killing more crabs than the bearded boat bros on The Deadliest Catch.

You are trying to make your experience into something objective. That is not the case.