Quote Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim View Post
Modern-day game design - you want your players to do something, you gotta give them their cookie for spending time on the hard-mode of choice or else they gonna play a game that will give them the cookie for playing the hard-mode of choice (and therefore not play FFXIV).

You can close your eyes and pretend it isn't there or relevant, but as we are experiencing entertainment in abundance and are short on the resource "time", we have to make decisions what to play - and as it turns out, putting a carrot on a stick works better than an empty promise and a wet handshake because "congrats you did it". See Criterion participation for that particular reason.

I'm pretty sure we both are going in circles with this.
I can tell you that this is not true for me. I get every season of frontlines and my trophy crystals roll over 50+ times for each series that I just convert the collars into wolf marks and buy a bunch of materia to sell on the mb. There are many folks who enjoy frontlines specifically for the quick ability to move around, come back and sit down for a match. Yeah I grinded the yoki event for that glowing ghost mount but it didn't hurt me that they increased the drop rate for players that came later, nor should it bother me on a deep level that I would actively campaign against it.