Quote Originally Posted by Mefuki View Post
Indeed, both major problems. SE seemed to get the former correct with revamped AF/Relic. Collecting Chapters in these different ways was a really great idea. I'm totally OK with the idea of taking much longer then people with connections. So long as I can actually make progress and I'm not just told, "Oh, you don't know X person or Y people? Well, you can't do it". Because the issue here isn't that I don't want to put in effort (I slowly grinded gil for 2 months everyday to get enough to buy my HMP last year), it's that I want to actually play the game: Without being told to wait 2+ hours before I can start making progress or that I'm just not allowed to have X gear because I don't really know certain people in game.

Basically, this:
I have no idea what you mean by "you don't know x or y person"? Are you trying to say that if you don't know specific people you are locked out of content? That is hardly true, you can do anything in this game lol. You just need to put forth the effort in getting the people together, which is something people like you don't do. Then you blame it on game design because you can't participate when that is your own doing. Of course you don't want to put in effort, you are the type of player holding this game back. This isn't WoW and obviously SE didn't intend it to be that, they did that with XIV.