I will be quitting FFXI if voidwatch stays how it is and it's all the future content it, drops from VW might as well not exist because they are so rare and random. I pretend they aren't even in the game tbh.

I will not play a MMO with such a horribly designed loot system, I would rather quit.
I did serious endgame before Abyssea, drops that took literally years to obtain. 2+ years to finish morrigan body, far longer for all my king drops. At the time this was acceptable to the kind of players that did serious endgame, but now with Abyssea they made endgame open to everyone and everyone will expect to have the same access that was never there before, they just are not going to accept drop rates of the past anymore I think lol Hell even the hardcore won't like going back to the old ways.

So yeah, I think they are trying to make FFXI more long-term again, or someone else is back in charge of the game and they think they can just time warp back to how they used to keep people playing long-term with very little content. It just ain't gonna fly.

With MMO's they either need to add quite regular mass amounts of content with decent drop rates (abyssea) or add far cheaper content less frequently with really amazing drops that are very rare or difficult to obtain. (voidwatch stage 2).

Given they are not going to be adding mass amounts of regular content like they did with Abyssea from now on I think they will go with the very very rare drop system, the whole point of which is that you may never get the drop you want..or that it takes forever.

People are just used to being able to fully gear a job in 1-3 weeks. While in the past being full geared and top tier would take 3-4++ years.