This is how new MMOs DONT make it.

[DarkB]

Dam you SE, now I have no reason to go to CT, to beat T5 again to get my weapon, to beat the extreme mode primals or to have fun in PvP. You just ruined the game with this overpriced House system that haves nothing to do with the actual gameplay... I'm leaving!!. (lol?)

You might have overlooked the fact that every piece of gear introduced in this patch is worse than allagan gear. So have fun doing something thats not worth your time.

[ZaelC]

You might have overlooked the fact that every piece of gear introduced in this patch is worse than allagan gear. So have fun doing something thats not worth your time.

Not at all, I can transform my DRG in 9 different DoW/DoM classes, and I want to try out some of them. Different opinions about what is "worth your time or my time".

[Dreamer]

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/...of-all-time-is

I dont think FFXI is one of the longest running MMOs ever. It's been going for a while, but some other games (the realm online which launched in 1996) have been going much longer. Regarding profitability, FFXI is the most profitable Final Fantasy game to date, per former CEO Yoichi Wada:

"...Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada heralded Final Fantasy XI as the most profitable of all past Final Fantasy games..."
http://kotaku.com/5921037/the-most-p...ill-paying-for

Ahh, good catches. I was actually reading it as box sales, which I would have trouble believing, but for sheer profitability, it definitely makes sense.

[Yoruichi4478]

You might have overlooked the fact that every piece of gear introduced in this patch is worse than allagan gear. So have fun doing something thats not worth your time.

There are plenty of ppl who haven't done coil yet who will look at CT as a welcome in-between on gear instead of doing what we did and hop into coil with darklight. They'll farm for gear that's in-between darklight and allagan which is what SE originally intended us to enter coil with. Plus I bet there will be some of us who will do CT anyway because it's something new.
Not only that but Yoshi-p did say in the live letter before this one that if you already had iLvl 90 gear you could farm for vanity if you so chose or gear alt jobs til you could gear in allagan.

[Fiorana]

You might have overlooked the fact that every piece of gear introduced in this patch is worse than allagan gear. So have fun doing something thats not worth your time.

There are a lot of people out there like me who take thier sweet time to do anything, I'm still in mostly AF gear right now, so I have a lot to look foward to and I know I'm far from being alone in this.