Quote Originally Posted by Mahoro View Post
Also, GG's points re: HNM camping being a waste of time and product/fun idea are subjective. Objectively, these events were done. We aren't in 2005 here. You are making a value judgment on a known phenomenon that happened years ago. It's a phenomenon I'm glad I wasn't involved in hardcore, but not every shell that camped HNM's would have sold that desired drop to another LS no matter how many manhours you expended to pay its price tag.
Are you being intentionally dense? The point that doing HNMs was a net loss for many shells is an objective stance. The fact that people did it in the first place indicates that they enjoyed the content to some degree, or just didn't know better.

Objectively? Farming gil and buying drops was better for a hell of a lot of stuff. Still is. But unless some people find Arch Dynamis Lord super fun and thrilling and totally worth doing regardless of the drops, you're going to have to weigh people's proclivity towards the event against the opportunity cost they incur by doing it. Every relic taken 95-99 is essentially another 75 Relic that could have been built from scratch.

You're also completely convoluting the issue. It's not a matter of people entering Dynamis or not entering Dynamis. They already entered Dynamis. The opportunity cost being weighed is what they're doing after entering Dynamis. They're there. They have a choice between farming ADL and farming currency. Farming ADL means not farming nearly as much currency. That is a loss.