Will you quit if this game becomes raid-centric?

[Tsukino]

The NMs are harder then XI if you fight them at their level but it's not like level "was" hard before unlike XI.... Either way. The drops aren't "rare" at all. :/

"Was" when 30k people were playing, yes. If they can fix the game up and make it appealing to people, those people who leveled up during that time will be a small minority. The rest will have to level up for a while before they can handle them.

Although, again, you're right about the stupid repop times. That's the main issue with all the content in the game right now really; you can just spam it all day long until you're done.

Well. Yoshi even said himself that "rare items" (or what he considers to be rare I guess) will be more from instances. And with the new claiming system I just can't see anything "open world" being worth anything.

Going to be lazy here and request a link. I don't want to dig up that thread full of "is the magazine out yet? What does it say?" for 100 posts to try and find it.

All I've seen him say is that they "haven't forgotten" about non-instanced stuff, in one of the letters, although that's obviously pretty vague.