Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
This has little to do with anything getting easier. RMTs still leveled jobs and farmed crap for gil even back then, it just took a little longer. I remember seeing armies of BLMs with gibberish names in the dunes and other places back in the day.
Well, in this and other similar Lamenting The RMT Situation threads that currently festoon this forum, it is often mentioned that "RMT Robot Beastmasters Are Clearing Zones With Their Jugpets."

Back in the day, pre-Stout Servant (Easyfication) and pre- ILVL/Statvom and pre "Jugpets Are Now Siege Engines", I was a BST75 main job for about four years, every single day.

These RMT Jugpet-masters, not Beastmasters, they would not have survived five seconds in the level 75 BST job.

Level 75 BST was a religious experience. I physically prayed every time I pressed charm. I prayed that mobs would not turn around and notice a mis-charm nearby, and link up with the mis-charmed mob. Playing BST75 was a high-tension skill game, with a large slice of praying for mercy, thrown in.

RMT are famously bad at gaming. I used to see dead RMT in all the NM areas during the lvl 75 era. I would watch them getting owned by the most silly NMs.

RMT could never have survived as a BST75 in the 2004-2009 age, of charming mobs, kiting, pinning, pet-swaps. It took skill, patience, and nerves of steel, and of course a lot of praying.

But RMT can easily survive in 2019 with Jugpets That Are Like Indestructible Siege Engines.

Nobody is saying that RMT did not exist in the old game. What I'm saying is that it took them a lot longer to get to max level and capped skills and capped merits. They couldn't just build a new full-power character in a day. But now they can, because of Easyfication.

My original post was not even about this. It was about the lack of engagement and friendships, which is caused by this solo rocketship burn from 1-99. People are not engaging and making friends like they used to, and the reason is because the game is so much easier.

I hope people enjoy Trusts and Easy Mode gaming, I hope it brings them joy. It is just that I'm comparing it to my own experiences, which as I say, I have a lot of real adventuring memories in the level 1-75 range, both hilarious and heroic memories, and these experiences are being missed entirely in the new era.