Quote Originally Posted by saevel View Post
This is horse sh!t. Having played over a dozen MMO's I can say with authority that while every MMO does have elements of e-peen waiving, I've never ~ever~ seen it as bad as in FFXI. You people take the concept of "perfection" to such an extreme that it discourages fun and fair game-play. Things get to the point that "if your not X job doing Y function, then you need to either level X job or jump off a bridge and die". You get people like wish who turn into obvious trolls and go around like their some sort of super "elite" player. You get sites like BG that become this cesspit of elitism, where they stand around all day and pat each others back and tell each other how great they are and how much everyone else sucks. In effect you try to mold the game for the 1~5% group instead of the 95% group. We saw this with the "WAR SAM MNK BRD BRD RDM" mentality that consumed the game so much that people were quitting due to lack of enjoyment / participation. Where content was being made accessible only to the 5% and not to the 95%.
I don't usually try to gang-up vs the "min/max'ers"... but, yea... Dude you are on the ball with this.

If SE knows what they're doing, and they actually want the majority of players (that's where the $ is) to enjoy the game, they'll consider expanding their horizons beyond the point of cowering down to the feet of the ever persistent, outspoken and self-proclaimed "Best of the Best". Then we might actually see the implementation of dynamic game mechanics, that look further than the limited view of: Who has the most "bling-bling" gear, wins.

Something with more cooperative focus, where we work together as a team, and do away with the "10 commandments of purist elitism". The first of which being "Thou shall not let the NIN without a Kannagi, DO anything".