Sept update blues

[Hayward]

Where are all the people that were bitching about how easy Abyssea was? They're the ones you need to target.

Thank you!

These are the same loudmouths who go on and on about how every player (but them) wear inferior gear--as though AF3+1/+2 are on the same plane as level 17 Lizard gear--and how everyone should have 2 or 3 Empyrean weapons (because everyone should be as connected as they are. I'm from Chicago, so don't bother trying to sell me that). To them, anything that is accessible to players who want it is "gimp" (quotes added because it's nonsense). To these people, anything worth having must involve some type of Ironman Triathlon-type of event that requires the most "efficient" of jobs.

I'm slowly working my way into this update and hope that there's more to this and any flaws are fixed.

[Greatguardian]

Thank you!

These are the same loudmouths who go on and on about how every player (but them) wear inferior gear--as though AF3+1/+2 are on the same plane as level 17 Lizard gear--and how everyone should have 2 or 3 Empyrean weapons (because everyone should be as connected as they are. I'm from Chicago, so don't bother trying to sell me that). To them, anything that is accessible to players who want it is "gimp" (quotes added because it's nonsense). To these people, anything worth having must involve some type of Ironman Triathlon-type of event that requires the most "efficient" of jobs.

I'm slowly working my way into this update and hope that there's more to this and any flaws are fixed.

The irony in this post is hilarious because it's not BG-esque posters who called for harder content. Most of us don't give a crap how accessible content is, as long as it's fun. I'd be perfectly content if everyone in the game had everything I had and more. I don't need to justify my existence that way.

It was the casual playerbase who freaked out upon the release of Abyssea and has clamored over the Official Forums multiple times begging the Dev team to make harder content. Casual players were pissed off that anyone could have anything, because it made them unable to justify their existence. Casuals came in droves to protest Abyssea EXP because it took away from the "accomplishment" of having a level 75+ job. Casuals came in droves to protest Empyreans being easy to make, even though they'll never have one themselves.

I know you want to just blame everything on BG, because you hate them so much. Considering you're a socialite on Cerberus, I can understand why'd you have so much pent up aggression towards the HNM "class". But this move wasn't their fault. If anything, it was the fault of social, casual players who asked for this and begged the Devs to make things harder. People who touted around how amazing they were for beating CoP post-ToAU, and who begged for more RotZ-style content even though they probably never had a job past 50 until ToAU.

That said, Abyssea was likely only a temporary move anyways. FFXI has never been a WoW-clone, and even Cataclysm has been failing hard recently because it pursued an Abyssea-like EZ-mode for the entirety of the expansion. FFXI will never, ever be as ridiculously tedious and needlessly difficult as it was in the days of CoP. But it's not going to stay as braindead as it was during Abyssea either. People are just going to have to get over that, and stop trying to blame others for what they did to themselves.