The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, which is the case here, SE wants to attract gamers from other MMO's and to do that they need to make this game casual friendly, its nothing about being loyalist its all about the numbers, they need to maintain a certain degree of subscriptions and to do that they need to sell this game as a casual MMO, sucks for the players who were part of 1.0 craze, but unfortunately you have to suck it up buttercup and be thankful you get to play a FF game.....errr...an updated one I mean.