Quote Originally Posted by Zojha View Post
Primarily, they evolved around an increasingly busy population of players.

Can't access something right away? No issue if you have infinite time.
Personally I find long term content and goals as positive things in the game. Not 3ver thing needs to revolve around it of course. He'll even FFXI had billions of ways to do things and rewarded players for specializing in the stuff they found fun.

That's the big crux of the issue I find. XI had tons of really well fleshed out content. It knew it's focus and hammered it. Content wasn't watered down so everyone could do everything.

Even as a more casual player I enjoyed being able to master one thing slowly then branch out as I grew over time. I didn't no life the game hell took me a solid year to hit my first capped job.