Patch 2.2, Accessibility, Difficulty Levels, and Throwing Away Content

[Susanoh]

This is how modern MMOs work. Old content becomes obsolete (waaait, FFXI did that too...remember garrison, etc? hurr) Deal with it.

Actually, SE never outright replaced Garrison. It certainly didn't remain popular throughout the game's life, but the Mannequin pieces that dropped from it were still in high demand years after it came out, and some of the equipment dropped from it like Garrison Tunica and Garrison Hose were actually some of the best stuff you could wear on some jobs for that level.

Of course, trying to bring up a small scale event like Garrison was a terrible attempt to make a point to begin with, considering that pre-Abyssea people were still doing Sky, Sea, Dynamis, Limbus, Salvage, HNMs, ZNMs, ISNMs, Nyzule Isle, Einherjar, Assault, Campaign, orb fights, and various other small events released over those seven years. If a game that builds upon its content rather than obsoletes everything except the last few months isn't your thing, that's fine, but you're not going to convince anyone that FFXI is in the same category as modern day WoW ripoffs because of a silly example like that.