Quote Originally Posted by Asmodai View Post
Which is nice, but with no reward it doesnt go very far. The reason mmo's are mmo's is because you character progresses, in this game progression is watered down so much to cater to the lowest common denominator that its almost useless. It might as well be a chat room. I also still raid, I just dont push for it as much as I used to in other mmo's. Hell, I dont even push for it as hard as in 2.0. FFXIV just has something missing, you should never be able to get gear equal to raid level gear from just doing faceroll content.
It only seems that way because FFXIV has short patch cycles.

And again, there's no point in having high end gear if you don't make use of it. Progression for the sake of progression has the least amount of value.

This is a theme park MMO. You have to keep players entertained for short bursts. Fast vertical progression is a result of that, and it's not going anywhere