12,95 a month for what?

[Jigg]

Don't let the door hit you on the way out /wave
It's been stated several, several times that mechanics were going to be changed. one of the changes they are making is a way to expand gear in number and appearance. In order for them to do that, they had to create new structures for everything. The existing structures were not designed for materia socketting, which is why you can't socket materia into nm drops because they existed before materia.

Instead of drastically reducing the amount of gear available, they got crafty and left the old gear in prefixed with "Dated" so that the gear still exists in game until they can add more new gear to the system.

The game in its currently state doesn't serve hardcore play very well at the moment...if you go all out all the time, you will run out of stuff to do. Pace yourself and make some friends and the game is much more enjoyable.

I'll be paying because I am enjoying myself. Things are changing, we've known this for quite some time now. Roll with it or don't.

[viion]

Don't let the door hit you on the way out /wave
It's been stated several, several times that mechanics were going to be changed. one of the changes they are making is a way to expand gear in number and appearance. In order for them to do that, they had to create new structures for everything. The existing structures were not designed for materia socketting, which is why you can't socket materia into nm drops because they existed before materia.

Instead of drastically reducing the amount of gear available, they got crafty and left the old gear in prefixed with "Dated" so that the gear still exists in game until they can add more new gear to the system.

The game in its currently state doesn't serve hardcore play very well at the moment...if you go all out all the time, you will run out of stuff to do. Pace yourself and make some friends and the game is much more enjoyable.

I'll be paying because I am enjoying myself. Things are changing, we've known this for quite some time now. Roll with it or don't.

Pace yourself? You'd have to fight 1 mob, go make a cup of tea, fight another, have a snack, fight another, watch Dexter, fight another, just to slow this game down lol.

There is hardly anything in the game and all of it has been easily completed by everyone by now.

So many people have completed all achievements (that means all quests, nm kills, imperial events, other random crap). As well as all levels, got all the best gear and socketed it. Then theres... nothing else to do. woooop.

The only endgame content atm is Ifrit and even that is dying.

So I understand the OP's worries, the game has nothing to offer if you play "normally", if you spend about 5 months levelling sure, you panned it out yourself, but by playing the game like.. a normal game, you soon run out of shit to do. Look at ifrit, guy is a serious joke now due to lancer method, he was fked within the first week. And its not about making things harder, its about making MORE things to do lol. All that balance and design and crap that went into ifrit was a complete waste of effort.