Quote Originally Posted by Fendred View Post
If anything, it suggests that the use of addons made the game more enjoyable for a greater number of people.
This is one thing I don't agree on necessarily. Addons are nice, yes, but addons like Deadly Boss Mod exists because people were not willing to learn to watch the mechanics themselves. It did promote laziness, but with PUG's in WoW, it just felt like a necessary evil sometimes. An MMO is well designed when you have less desire to use addons. In FFXIV's case, the only time I have wanted the addon feature to finally arrive is for a built in DPS Meter, which has 20 threads of it's own.