Quote Originally Posted by Diavolo View Post
Also, I find the claim that people are paying $13/month or more for content IDs solely to roll the dice at the goblin dials you yourself claim give random junk 99% of the time a bit much. Lots of people pay for multiple accounts, myself included, but since the goblin dials and login points started I have yet to come across a single person claiming that was the reason they were doing it. Does anyone here do that?

If you are paying $13/month to roll the dice on gear from the goblin dial and enjoy it, that's fine. As you know, I'm all for providing options. If you believe charging people $13/month to roll the dice at the goblin dial is a good way to encourage people to return/subscribe to a long running MMORPG like Final Fantasy XI then I will vehemently disagree.
I do just that, as I've already said. I have capped character slots for these events, I enjoy doing them every day as a chance to scratch that lottery card to get something nice. I also know that a ton of other people do the same on Asura, I know because there is an army of level 1 characters with ?? next to their name checking that box every day. It's a zerg rush at jp midnight.

The gobbie boxes are a great addition, I'm really glad they added it and I can genuinely say that I probably would of left and gone back to one of my other mmorpg titles by now if not for the few nice items I have obtained from them, mainly because they gave me a nice item at a point when I was bored and had nothing I could do because my gear isn't good enough and the "community" sucks. They do the most important thing they were added to do, give casual players an incentive to log-in every day. For an mmo the main way you keep people playing is to keep them coming every day to keep the addiction in check, when people start skipping days they start losing the addiction.

I've played a lot of these games and most of them have some system that makes you log-in every day, this is the one FFXI chose.

If you don't like it then that's fine, you don't have to do it. You lose nothing from not doing it because you can get whatever you want anyway, it's not really for you as such because you're already heavily invested and here to stay. You have reason enough to log-in, you have the ffxi world as your oyster.

End of the day, you are a player telling the devs you don't like an incredibly popular piece of content. These are people that have all the server logs of everything, this is their job and you're back seat driving telling them that all these players who enjoy it are wrong and they should remove it because you know better than them.