Quote Originally Posted by BlaiseArath View Post
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Your own personal definition of winning does not trump the definition that was set by the creators of the game, plain and simple. You can set your own goals within the game, but you can't expect SE to consider those goals to be as important as what they have instated as the intended goals of the game. What SE intends is for players to progress through the story.

FFXIV is not Pokemon. You may enjoy playing it that way (and that's fine), but that isn't why it was created, nor is it a playstyle that SE considers to be the main purpose of the game.