I miss the sense of adventure and danger in MMOs.

[justinjarjar]

Good lord no, there's dozens of things I could go play PvP in that aren't FFXIV and plenty that aren't MMO's.

Which is you, and I like PvP which is lacking in this game (even in a casual sense zergs are in no way fun to me or should ever be). Does not mean that they can not improve on it (which many people want just QoL changes like no GC restriction which could be implemented as a small patch and would not change anything major).

This is very telling on todays gamers then, player's expect a dumbed down content to the lowest denominator and if dev dare add any kind of depth it's a instant F2P game, how sad how far the genre has fallen, so Yoshi does have a point on it dying off slowly but surely for mmo's in general. /shrug

Time sink/waste and dumbed down are completely two different things. Just to point out to you, hard was arcade games which where made to take your money faster (harder game more deaths, more deaths more coins for resets). There is a reason they did not last with home gaming. Time waste is a 2 year grind to max level where you hit the same mobs for a months to level to get to the next zone and hit a slightly different mob for a month.