I fail to understand SE doing this other then to try to divide the player base even further from those who do large endgame events and those who don't. At least in the past the only difference was slightly more power and maybe some extra effects but now this is gonna make the difference between playerbase larger then ever.

I think this will hurt the game even more towards new players who want to join.

SE stop trying to make this game unappealing to the players to try to boose FF:XIV sales, that game sucks it will always suck and no matter how much of our money you take it won't change.