There's a very interesting correlation between some of the people getting up in arms over the supposed 'need' for raid gear to be exclusive and better than anything else on offer and the dubious party finder messages found in-game. I won't name any names for obvious reasons, though I'm sure attentive players can come to their own conclusions.

I thought it was odd that this thread was being heavily derailed by that particular talking point and that very few of the people talking about gear being 'devalued' were mentioning the much bigger concern that is people being boosted for gil and real world money where high end PvP and PvE content is concerned. Worse yet, account sharing is supposedly used for some of the harder content as it's impossible to carry someone through the extremely high end content in this game.