Quote Originally Posted by saevel View Post
Ok this is an MMORPG not a console RPG, so expecting any accomplishment to mean something long term is both ignorant and stupid.

That being said, Tanaka did create a patter of constant side-grades while leaving the ultimate weapons, well ultimate. The entire player base came to expect that as par for the course and when new leadership changed that, well you have the hate. Your anger isn't that they changed it (expecting no change in an online RPG is stupid), it's that SE had you expecting one thing while doing another. Thing is, we've gone through this exact set of issues before, during Abyssea. When SE released the crour sets and the +2 armor it obsoleted a lot of old gear. Futher then emp weapons beat out many of the previous super weapons (anyone remember Hagun) including relics. There were riots as relic holders moaned that Empy's were too easy and too powerful, it made many relics obsolete (not that many where that powerful to begin with).

Anyhow be glad Tanaka is gone, otherwise Delve would be 6,000 plasm for beating all six NM's with weapons costing 500,000 plasm. Or better yet individual randomized loot from each MB kill with only one slot for an item and the rest being logs and ores. Change is needed for MMO's to continue, especially in a game like FFXI where you can gear / level all jobs on one character.


This x 10000. I understand these guys effort and tears but honestly, you can't ask in a MMORPG for an item to be always the best in slot. That's just ridiculous.