I recently unsubbed from FFXI myself because of the issues with R/M/E weapons, now of course I'm not posting for moral support or anything like that.. that would be stupid. I just thought I'd give my two gil: The problem with the sub 99 versions of the empy weapons not receiving a buff isn't really an issue for me, I was working on 99 anyway... what was an issue was the total destruction of the VWNM scene overnight once seekers came out, since nothing from VW is really relevant anymore, why would people spam it and provide the market with much needed HMP and riftdross? It's currently all but impossible to complete an empy weapons magian trials, at least on the server I played since there are no new items coming into the market and since VW isn't small group friendly, there's no real way around these issues currently.

For me, this rendered the game unplayable by cutting me off from any possibility of completing my long term goals. If anything I'd say making sure non-seekers content stays populated needs some attention, at least in cases were it's impossible to solo or small group those events (as obviously, things like dynamis can be done without needing outside help from other players).