People need to stop comparing lock outs in other games to this one anyways. Other games the content is locked out per job, whereas the selling point of FFXIV is that you can have all jobs on one character. Even FFXI never had week long lockouts.

I am actually surprised casuals think this is only a "hardcore gamer" issue. I actually think this is more of an issue for casual players. I am a casual player. My playtime is limited. Because it's limited I want to have the freedom to do what I want in the limited time that I have. This especially goes for casuals with random schedules. Why shouldn't we be allowed to do coil twice in a week because we may not have the time to do it next week?

I don't care if it means hardcore players get gear faster, that's the reward they get for putting more hours in.