So all new items are worthless after 3 months?

[MeowyWowie]

This is the way of the modern MMO. Maybe the genre just isnt for you anymore.

Doing everything the same way the competition does it isn't a very good decision for FFXIV if you ask me, not after failing its launch. There's tons of games out there doing this already. The market is saturated with free hand-out MMOs. We don't need another.

Fact is, we knew that this was the direction they were taking once Yoshi P took control. I agree with the OP. I'm not really looking forward to it when viewing the entire game as a whole. It just seems like "What's the point?"