Quote Originally Posted by rog View Post
Recently a friend of mine started playing ffxi. He just started a new character. It took him less than one day to reach level 90. It took him another day to beat all the missions. The next day he beat shinryu, and got all the good atmas, and abyssites. About one more day later, he had full af3+2. On his fifth day back, he finally finished his empyrean weapon. On his sixth day back, he realized he had beat the game, and had nothing left to do, except watch the credits.

This game should not be that easy. What ever happened to ffxi being "challenging"? What made ffxi so great in the past was that it was challenging. It was not a game where you had everything handed to you on a golden platter. And with each drop, came a sense of accomplishment. But now there is no sense of accomplishment, because it is impossible to overcome any challenges, since after all, no challenges remain in the game.

Please SE, make ffxi challenging again.
/cries because you are so right in every respect. I have heard a rumor, mentioned more than once over the last several months, that FFXI will become like endgame again and that to reach level 99, you will have to know how to play FFXI as it was originally created, complete either a series of quests/missions requiring "old school" knowledge, and maybe even fight Maat and his brother Degenhard as the ultimate test. Make it so SE.