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[Gilthas]

And yet people played it, and people logged in frequently, and people helped on another building one of the strongest communities in an MMO.

And then people left.

I played FFXI for 4 years and had fun with it, but I'd never sign up to play a game like that again. In fact, FFXIV starting to feel like FFXI (everything being a grind) is what's making me leave.

I play FFXIV for fun, not as a second job.

Faf/Hogg is also just the tip of the iceberg of the issues with FFXI's endgame that are largely related to the horizontal gear system (bad drop rates and new good items rarely being added to the game) that the game had, including:

- events requiring large groups where everyone just wants one item because the rest of the drops are crap.
- many endgame events not dropping anything of worth for specific jobs.
- too many endgame events requiring upwards of 2 hours of "work".

When you add all of this up you get an endgame system that's more of a job than fun because you have scheduled events most of the week, that you need to attend to not fall behind in points. Where most of the stuff you do doesn't even drop anything for your job. I'd much rather have FFXIV's endgame where I have the freedom of doing most content on my own schedule.

It's no wonder that most of FFXI's playerbase started flocking to small-scale events like Limbus/Nyzul Isle.