I don't know if it's just me but i'm back to the game since nearly 2 year well since master lv.
(i been playing back in 75 era till lv 85 cap then took long break and came back around 7 year ago with like a 8 month break, just before odyssey gaol came by)
AND i feel like my community is splitting up more and more.
I have that feeling that ffxi is runing away from is essence.
Here why:
ffxi is always been about community, trying gather ppl together, share up and have some fun. And the current end game have only 1 event for LS at this point. Ody and Sortie being party based make ppl get 6 ppl and hard to help other cause they go every night we don't have dynaD.
So when i came back there was 2 group of 6 ppl having static.
so i made a group with 2 of ls and 3 other friend that i find over time. (made 1 good friend yea that thing i like about ffxi)
Making progression on killing Ody NM higher vengeance feel a big accomplishment which is other essence that keep me in game.
But why those end game thing can't be 18 ppl based so we would have fun with Ls base and have more shout to gather ppl together. (Sortie and Odyssey A B C and maybe Gaoel) (would help asura for instance waiting list :P)
So yea just saying it's hard to keep ppl together when we exclude some out of event.
please if you agree reply so we can get visibility from dev ^^