Sfchakan, I'm not saying FFXI doesn't have content, but the longevity of that content is often padded quite heavily by low drop rates and hourly, daily, or weekly lockouts. It makes it seem like more than it really is. Other games you mentioned probably do have as much or more content than FFXI, but you don't face the same lockouts and low drop rates. Someone like you, and I don't mean it as an insult, may well just blast through it quickly while the average player of those games may not.

If you like the way things are with FFXI, fine, but let's be fair. SE uses low drop rates to keep from having to create as much content. Why create 20 dragons with 20 super duper swords when you can make just 1 and have people fight it forever? To you it makes the content they do create seem more special. To me, it makes the game as a whole seem smaller and more cheaply run than it should be. To you there's more value, but to me there's much less.