Quote Originally Posted by Demon6324236 View Post
Nice comparison except that it is actually something you learn, rather than something where many numbers determine your performance. See, leeching something like that would matter because it is something you learn, then put the knowledge to use. In FFXI, you level, gain little knowledge of the actual things you will be doing with the job, and the skills which may or may not be gimped are easily leveled, where as in real life, you go through years of school for a reason, rather than in the game where if you level past a point quickly, you can make it up in a matter of hours, rather than a matter of weeks.

isn't it this mentality that has brought this game to it's knees? back in the day you actually had to know stuff in order to play this game. these days the majority of players ingame that are vets most likely outnumbers all the new people... they've been [playing for years accomplished a character that took years to get up and have acess to alot more exclusve content or areas due to this expertise. then you have new players coming in going... "oh that's the effecient xp source?" and even older players support it (which btw book burning has far more benifits for well established players) and guess what they do? they flock to it...

a good example of this is I bet most people don't even know about the moon gate unless they actually looked it up. or that bibiki bay has a place for people around 75 to party up at.


one of the people from SE said it themselves they feel like this game is no longer garnering "skill" based play and skill takes time to master.