Quote Originally Posted by bobthetaru View Post
This is the only MMO on the market where we still use gear from 8 years ago. The upgrades to the Zilart and Dynamis gear are cool, for nostalgia's sake, as it's the original endgame content from 10 years ago, but all the rest is just too much. Wipe the slate clean and start fresh. Sure some people will be pissed off that the weapons they spent years making aren't the best anymore, but who cares, they're still good for their special and hidden effects, its not all about base damage. And so what if the new weapons are better? They bloody should be! Cmon guys, out with the old and in with the new.
That's part of the appeal for a lot of people. Shit in FFXI is not nearly as easy to get as it is in other MMOs, and never has been, and the devs have always understood that making players work their asses off for some small sidegrade and then the next time an update comes out, making it worthless, is not something that appeals to everyone. On top of that, FFXI's inventory system cannot possible support that kind of gameplay. The hell are we supposed to do with all of this old gear that we've spent years building up and making use of? Throw away our hard work and memories like their some cheap candy wrapper? Yea, no thanks. FFXI's gradual replacement of gear has always been a drawing point, and that they seem so set on just throwing that out the window really bothers a lot of us.