Endgame Content, Competitive Atmosphere

[Mireille]

Wont take this part seriously because its not based on facts. I will say the reason was because those items turned obsolete. If it was true then every mmo would have followed the same root. You have to admit its a good change.

whatever happens, happens. I'll still play regardless.

Not really quite sure how your statement here is any less an opinion than mine. In fact I would say that my feeling that XI is entering its final years of service is supported by the dwindling player population, and the hard cap represented by the PS2 hard drive limitation. At some point in the not too distant future development will cease, although they may do mergers and leave the servers up with no support for years to come. I expect we will see a third SE MMO launched prior to XI ending its development.

As far as it being a good change that is a question of opinion. I liked camping the Kings the old way, and unlike a lot of people I didn't see bots around every corner. I'm sure some shells did bot, but they didn't always get the claim either. There was one shell on our server that was notorious for bot claims, and they even did it in abyssea on NMs that spawned every few minutes so short timers didn't exactly solve the problem.