Quote Originally Posted by kylani View Post

The delve update was so different than most. I feel like the devs just made this huge jump because they don't care about longevity anymore. Don't put thought into it, just add an expansion to keep FFXI going and get what they can out of FFXI until FFXIV goes live, and if they turn off players so they jump ship to FFXIV, so much the better.
Slightly off topic, but I see a lot of people saying similar to the above. I doubt the devs are purposefully pushing people away from the game, considering if FFXI went under a lot of people would lose their jobs. Plus I'm sure square enix wants nothing more than for people to play ffxi AND ffxiv for double profits. Plus ffxi is still the safety net if ffxiv:arr flops again.

On topic, I agree with most here when they say this is a huge waste of dev time. Out of all the improvements and features the community has suggested, or SE has promised in the past, why implement item levels? While they're at it why don't they remake beastcoin icons, shorten behemoth tail lengths and give goobbue less teeth.

Talk about procrastination. It's like spending all night making a scale model of the Eiffel tower out of toothpicks and sugar cubes the night before college exams.