What's the point of ranks?

[gifthorse]

if u hate ffxiv so much, why are u here? same goes to everone else. sorry but if you find 99% of the game boring, Id just quit. Chances are, nothing added will even please you and your taking up unnessisary space.

No offense, but if you played the game as much as us, you'd hate it too. When I first learned of FFXIV, I thought it was amazing. But then i played it.

At first, I loved the crafting system and playing the market wards. I really enjoyed how a close-knit linkshell was needed to progress. Everyone was interdependent.

Basically I just played FF craftville for the first couple months.

But after I was the first on the server to make all the cool gear made from NM drops, and after the market wards became uniform and easily accessible, there wasn't really much to do anymore. And when I ranked up my DoW to 50, I began to understand why everyone was leaving. Leves are boring, there's no feeling of progression. Even NMs are utterly boring. They're boring even the first time you do them.

I feel like most of the things that made me even like the game in the first place are being taken away. There used to be potential and I could put up with the lack of content, but now there just seems to be so very little. And the reason Im active on these forums now is to try to affect a change in the development team and the direction they are taking this game so that maybe i can see potential in the game once again.

The implementation of aggro indicators, flat & boring NPC quests, the insistence on using the guildleve system even though nobody likes it... all these things are horrible, and it's like they can't make FFXIV into WoW fast enough.

I want Tanaka back.