And that's exactly the reason why I think long term goal is important in this game. A lot of people I know of start long term goal in this game, and keep playing so they can accomplish that long term goal. It's one aspect that'd appeal some people, thus making the game last longer.
If this game only has long term goal, then maybe it's bad. Because players that liked short term goal will quit. But this game has one billion short term goals if you don't like long term goal, idk the reason to kill more long term goal so people quit faster. A game needs to please both long term goal fans and short term goal fans to last longer. Not to eliminate one group and cause sub drop. Remember how sub drop after Abyssea? Remember how sub drop after SoA? That's what happen when SE try to eliminate the value of long term goal to please short term goal fans. And it's hard to recover from the dmg now.
Maat's cap is more of a sacrifice while making the lving speed faster. Lving speed was way too slow, so it's necessary to make it faster so everyone can enjoy more content. And maat's cap just got hit. It's a fair trade.
But you gain NOTHING from making mythic obtainable in like 1 month or something, besides a new gear start to lose value after 1 months of boring grind. You purposely reduce the mythic requirement, for the sake of some people wanting a Mythic. You don't really get to do more content if Mythic is faster, in fact you'd probably ended up doing less content by spending next month doing old content for mythic.
That is not the same, stop making arguement against current mythic requirement, using examples that's not relevant to my reasons to support current Mythic requirement.
I defend for Mythic requirement because I like to spend 1 year to finish a weapon, I don't like to spend 1 week to finish a gear and toss it next update like all other SoA gears. I pay this MMO for long term goals, if I want more short term goal I wouldn't even playing FFXI. If you want to convince me how making Mythic short term goal a better choice, you better convince me how FFXI with only short term goal is better than other short term goal MMO.