That didn't last long did it?

There is no more worthwhile communication, the game is being forceably moved back in the direction almost nobody wants it to go. Posts are ignored aside from what they want to answer (back to old old ways, only answer the stupid easy stuff or reply marginally ontopic with the things the devs replied to the JP players), most importantly there are genuine concerns and hatred for the new direction the game is going (as well as the serious lack of work going into updates we pay for) and these things are being ignored.

Era of communication under Tanaka = over, "you get what I say you get and I don't care if you like it or not". Or as what ruined FFXIV "I know better than you do what's good for an MMO, now shut up and play it."

All I see from FFXI from the last 2 updates is "someone" trying to take the game back in time and ignoring how much the playerbase has changed and the outrage about it. Most players don't want old FFXI anymore and ignoring us is not the best way to cointinue to make FFXI viable, please don't let this continue to the point where 12 months where someone is fired from another FF title due to running it into the ground.

It's ok to add 18 player content, it's not ok to make the drop system so stupid to artificially lengthen repeat kills to the level that everybody hates it. It's also ok to have serious endgame again but you can't ignore the more casual playerbase that FFXI has (which makes up the vast majority of paying subscribers and which came back for Abyssea, do we want to lose them all again?). It's ok to have rarer drops but not to this level of rare and not on items almost everyone wants given how easy it is to level things now (again an artifical time sink in place of actual content). It's ok to try make FFXI more profitable but it's not ok to cut back so hard that you starve the dev team and we get almost nothing of value from the updates that have already been cut back in number per year.

So yeah, less about 99 or 100 and more about the actual serious concerns players have with this game before you strangle the life out of the only profitable MMO the company is likely to have for the next 5-6 years (at best).