Dear SE reward those loyal from the begining!

[MookiesPM75]

we dont need rewrads for being here long

our rewards are that we have made more progress and dont gotta play catchup like those coming back

Have fun sitting at level caps with absolutely nothing to do for the next year or so. Also after grinding all your jobs to 50 via glitches and un-intended leveling methods with no doubt. Anyone who comes back from here on out will be more of a veteran than you ever were considering how much harder it is to level.

[Kinseykinz]

Have fun sitting at level caps with absolutely nothing to do for the next year or so. Also after grinding all your jobs to 50 via glitches and un-intended leveling methods with no doubt. Anyone who comes back from here on out will be more of a veteran than you ever were considering how much harder it is to level.

Not everyone who's been 'loyally playing' has all their jobs to rank 50. Also, while yes, from like Feb-July there was a guildleve glitch where you could keep repeating the same leves for good SP, you're forgetting a couple things we also had to suffer through to get to the baseline party/sp play you're at today.

WAY back at release SP was semi random/turn based...and was painfully slow for certain classes (esp. mages). Then they got rid of this (THANK the 12) and gave us a SP system closer to today's. The devs most likely 'made it rain SP' over the late winter-summer simply because it bought them time to work on developing storyline/battle systems etc. while those who were loyal, ranked up, since there wasn't much else to do.

As to the 'new people will be more of a veteran' thing, yeah, we've had to re-learn how to play at least 3 times now. We'll keep re-learning so I wouldn't pick on us too much. It's our patience and dedication that helped get this game to a point you're willing to play it at in the first place.

As to a 'reward for loyal players' Eh, a title would be kinda nice, but really letting us play for free was a good enough reward/incentive. But it is SUPER easy for SE to check and see which ones of us have been 'actively' playing. Your lodestone history keeps track of all your milestones, I can't imagine anyone who's been actively playing not getting at least one new milestone achievement a month. Heck ffxi use to keep track of how many times we KO'd, I'm sure they know who's been playing at least weekly and who's been more or less inactive.