Quote Originally Posted by Mags View Post
MMO's are a different animal now, and while some do still hold true to the old grind-it-out-fest mentality, there is a reason the MMO genre saw a huge participant spike after WoW's successful model. Sure I loved the old games that got me hooked into MMO's to begin with, but games like XIV are all about I can handle what with all I need to do in real life these days.

However not one of us can have our cake and eat it too. We will never have a balance, because you can't balance out a player base. In your opinion what you desire in the game is not what someone else will want. You must realize they designed this game to attract a type of player and that is what they will aim for.
The real life argument doesn't stand valid with the new gil grind inherent with housing, I see it as pandering to the gimme easy mode right now children of the real life parents who toss them a credit card to shut them up.