Is this your first Final Fantasy? Or do you just not remember grinding in past games?

[Calyanare]

It doesn't need to. Sure, somebody can play for 24 hours and finish their atma farming quickly, but if they can do it in ONE DAY then a very casual player with a few hours on their hands can do it within a couple of weeks.

Actually, my problem with the Atma thing is that what you just said there is completely false. If it took an equal amount of grinding/effort for anyone to get it, I would be fine with it, even if it took WEEKS (which I think it should). However, some people being done in 8 hours while I grind for 26 hours and only have 1/12, something is horribly wrong.

Why? Because everything is on a fast track and even if there is actually enough content you are able to blow through all of it far too quickly. MMO's had a grind aspect for a reason. Because the game itself is intended to have no end, its not like playing a single player RPG where you purchase the game and then play it through. And one of the ways they keep the game going is by designing content that takes time to complete, RNG is part of that. It does have its place.

Not asking for there not to be a grind. I'm asking for the amount of grinding to be equalized a little bit, so that it's a long grind for everybody and not just those who are unlucky. This is what all of you "OMG I finished mine in 8 hours so it's not a problem" people don't understand. I'm one of the unlucky ones. I've been grinding FATEs a total of 26 hours now and have one, that's right, ONE Atma. I don't want them to take away the grinding, I just want it to be equal (and ideally somewhere in between the extremes that exist now).

I'll consider myself fortunate seeing how you only have one after 26 hours.

And I consider myself fortunate alongside someone in another thread who said they only have one after 32 hours. All these people saying it's fine really have no idea.