Quote Originally Posted by detlef View Post
I don't think the average FFXIer worked 40 hours a week back then. How many players picked up this game in HS or college? I highly doubt your average player back then was working full time. The game required a pretty hefty time commitment. Remember spending the entire evening looking for PT, finally getting a BRD, taking 20-30 minutes to get to camp, and then XPing for like an hour before somebody had to leave?

This is obviously my opinion, but I don't think people will still put up with that kind of experience. I used the argument that the player base as a whole is more casual, but perhaps it's more accurate to say that the player base has a much lower tolerance for bullshit now than they did back then. Even players who want a classic server.

The other thing is that back then we were eating mud. We ate mud because we didn't know any better. Nowadays, we know there's steak out there. We don't always have steak, sometimes we still eat mud. But why you voluntarily go back to eating nothing but mud with no possibility for steak?
Uhh, almost my entire LS worked 40 hours, I was the exception due to being in HS. You ate mud in 2004? If you are referring to children doing stuff like eating worms, that actually still exists today.

The examples you gave aren't even hefty time requirements. EXPing for an hour is a hefty time commitment? Sitting in one spot with lfp flag up is a hefty time commitment? You are spending more time responding to these posts than the examples you gave.