From then to now. Did they keep their promises?

[Reika]

Idc what it says in that link. Back before phase 1 of beta, yoshida said conent would be spamless. This was in response to the hundreds of times people spammed dungeons to get geared. The idea was to get rid of the abysmal drop rates, but they merely replaced that with the need to gather a buttload of tokens, which also require you to spam.

Again, yoshida said long ago, one his first arr design concepts.