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[Afania]

You basically just broke the whole game down into complete meaninglessness as far as actually playing goes.

Not really, the whole point of MMO is to create a virtual world, and most ppl tend to seek accomplishment in a world, fact.

The only accomplishment you can have in this virtual world is getting items and parse higher....what other accomplishment you can have in FFXI? Nothing.

Thus it's only logical to have fun via getting accomplishment in FFXI. Technically, I find trying different pt setup and strategy to beat a content is fun as well, but with all that cookie cutter setup and strategy being used everywhere(and if you don't use cookie cutter setup the entire server would /blist you), it's hard to have fun from that aspect.