Quote Originally Posted by Answa View Post
I think you're overreacting.

FFXI didn't really have any difficulty to it. It just took fucking forever to get anything done. Or to wait for an NM to pop so that some other team would claim it. Or to wait 72 hours to be able to go to Dynamis again so that your relic armor doesn't drop. I could go on.
This. And he put it in a much nicer way than I would have.

OP is wearing pink nostalgia goggles. "Struggle" is something I see enough of in real life that I don't need more of it in a game I'm paying to play. I just want to work towards something and get it within a reasonable amount of time. FFXI was the antithesis of that way of thinking pre-Abyssea.
World of Warcraft, may you rot and burn in Hell.
This was not really needed. If it hadn't been WoW, it would have been another MMO, but someone was bound to change the standard by which MMORPGs were designed. That and WoW has more challenging fights than FFXI ever did. So no, U.