Lack of content and another level increase looming

[Panthera]

That final mission's still unresolved so I'd like to go to Abyssea Al'Taieu.

Please no, please. I would hate to see the billing stuff get resolved, only to see that the only thing this game has to offer anymore is one event, Abyssea, and the new levels fail to bring new challenges.

So I'm just curious what everyone thinks about how FFXI currently is, especially with another level increase coming soon.

I am deeply dissatisfied with the game itself, and I couldn't put forth the effort to go through the Click'n Buy for this.

There is one event with up-to-date gear. If you don't like it, you're out of luck.

There is no story-line anymore.

There are no characters anymore.

Whatever challenge there was in exping is all but gone now at any level.

Flower is more difficult than this.

I look back at the old days with a sad sense of nostalgia. People wander around at level 40 in Holiday Event gear nowadays. Mid level gear isn't worth the time, energy, money or inventory space to get because they'll level out of it too quickly and too easily. You used to have to take each level seriously, you had to be committed, be professional, be proud.

Now it's a little girl's friendly dress-up game where nothing can really hurt you, where the mobs are so non-threatening that you had might as well just be holding hands with them than fighting them.