From then to now. Did they keep their promises?

[Reika]

Fortunately, those tokens you speak of drop from what appear to be three different dungeons and three primal fights at the least. If you choose to pick one and do it repeatedly, that's your choice. There is nothing that requires you to spam the same event over and over and over.

Also, inherently, it's impossible to make an MMO where you do an endgame event once and be done with it. MMOs would die off in a heartbeat if there wasn't some possibility of not getting a drop or gear or token from the instances.

Basically, you're wrong. You don't have to spam anything. You can do Dzemael Darkhold or Adampor Keep or Garuda or Ifrit or The Binding Coil of Bahamut or <blah blah blah>.

You don't have to spam one, but you have to spam many still. Same thing, you just don't have to do the same dungeon over and over. Its still content spamming, even if you want to be all technical about it. They pulled the wool over your eyes, but not mine.

That last minute joke of an update to crafted mats forces you to spam content possibly more than you would have in 1.0