Quote Originally Posted by Jynx View Post
Said the person wearing sunglasses.

Just because some people can't enjoy a good journey doesn't mean the developers need to do everything in their power to prevent those of us do from enjoying one.
Right, because FFXI was so much about enjoying the journey--oh wait, no it wasn't. It was mired by an obsession for efficacy that screwed over more than just a handful of jobs. If you weren't chaining 200 exp/kill mobs you were in a fail party. If you didn't have the "right" jobs you were screwed into waiting even longer to find a group. A prime example of a game as per the OP that was turned into a rat race not by design, but by its players.

The outcome is the same, which I noted in the part of my post you chose to ignore. If anything, the OPs wish makes the rat race a lot more painful and annoying.