The importance of job points

[PlumbGame]

You're going by the assumption that things were perfectly fine back then and that things haven't improved significantly in the meantime. I prefer content follow today's pace rather than the pace of yesteryear, so I'm going to push for that. I don't want the old FFXI back in any way shape or form.

Progression via the idea of lvls isn't ok? You prefer handouts? Because that is what you imply. You don't want to work for your JPs, so you think its unfair that you wouldn't have access to same things JPs provide to a player that has worked for JPs. It's obvious you don't want old FFXI back because you obviously want to sit in town all day and win the game. You farm JPs now faster than MOST partys if not ALL partys could get merits back in the days. For you to say otherwise would imply that you obviously know how to play with other people in an MMO (in your case actually some kind of solo game where you get everything doing nothing) and should have no issues farming JPs in the first place making your points irrelevant.

Giving the actual proof of the population vs the population now and days, it is actually warranted that things were better then than now. I don't know what kind of proof you could provide to say otherwise but till you do it's pretty obvious that more people enjoyed the previous years of FFXI than not, though it's not really relevant for this topic so really shouldn't be discussed.

Again, JPs are gained at a faster pace, just because you are apparently doing it wrong, doesn't mean they aren't.

Actually I have 50 JPs on my DNC, 20+ on my WAR, and a smattering on other jobs. I can get them pretty fast even though I know I'm way behind some people. That's not really the point. SE lied to us. Not changed their minds. They lied. They should do something to make up for lying to their customers.

Also if JPs are the new primary form of progression then they need to flow at a rate that better represents the present day pace of the game, and not the pace of the game from 7 years ago. It's fine IMO to have some limitations on them such as where they can be obtained, but the rate before bonuses kick in is just too low for something that's only going to become more and more valuable as time goes on and something that scales the way they do.

I'm sorry, but you are not new here. You are mad that they lied to you? Then why didn't you quit "7 years ago"? SE, just like every other MMO, reserves the right to change there mind about anything they want. Also, given the time frame that they mentioned this would happen, I'm sure there has been plenty of time to build up a plethora of CP. They didn't just yesterday say that JPs are going to be more important and all the sudden hit us with a patch tomorrow.

Let's say you are in a party that obtains 10CP an hour. That takes 11 hours to cap out 2 entire catagories, and give ALL the current gift rewards. 11 hours...... and it actually gives you 15 more JPs than needed. Again...... 11 hours...... IDK what world you live in, but that is significantly faster than the game "7 years ago". That is 3.3mil exp from CP........