Quote Originally Posted by yoshikwalla View Post
I actually quit because of this. I played this game since closed ALPHA back in early-to-mid 2010. I've waited years for the epic battle against Gaius van Baelsar, and to be prevented from experiencing the finale to a Final Fantasy game's main storyline, even if it one of many, is unforgivable from an RPG standpoint and a gaming standpoint.

Level 48-50 is when the game stops being an RPG and starts becoming a repetitive mechanics-driven simulation game a la DOTA and League of Legends. 1.0 was, in a lot of ways, a terrible game for most of its life cycle. But as an RPG, it blows this game to smithereens. Over the course of the game's life cycle, it was tweaked and updated and formatted to tell a story. In this game, the exact opposite is happening.

Any RPG that introduces gameplay systems that ruin the role-playing experience (in this particular case, the Duty Roulette) is not a good RPG. And definitely not a good Final Fantasy game.
This post wins the thread for most italics I guess.

Listen man, regardless of your highly subjective opinion that Final Fantasy games are the pinnacle of RPG storytelling, and as much as I feel for you, it is in fact an MMO. As I posted before already, you're going to be subjected to plenty of different people with different play styles and expectations. Even if you weren't using the DF or the DR, you can't expect to hold back seven other players(who for all you know have who knows what else going on) while you do whatever you're doing. This same scenario applies in real-life as well. Nobody has a magic wand to magically be able to influence the majority to do whatever he or she wants, and to try to do so is bratty. Fortunately, players have the option to use the Party Finder, where they can specifically request people who are looking for the same time of experience as you are.

If your response to that is "well Final Fantasy should never have become an MMO", well then really there isn't much else to tell you, and you probably shouldn't be posting here.