Level sync is the system that made it hard to party and created smn burn parties, it made it easier for awile, but also took 80%+ of every server to lvl75 and you were left behind, abyssea even made smn burns pointless, a great smn burn was maby 40k/hr, abyssea in a crap party is 100k, and this is before the new abyssea zones came out where you could do pages for 5kxp every 2min's.

"This about sums up my feelings."
You mean where you read what you want to read and skip over the responces.

FF11 would have eventually sunk sooner or later like all games will, but casual complaining leading to easy mode updates because even exp'ing was to much work (similer to how casuals complain about surplus now) lead to SE setting the ship on fire, seeming to get us to come to 14, and it worked.

Your endless arguement that its dumb for us to like to camp needs to stop being repeated, we like what we like, some people like sky-diving, or soccer, or swimming, or poker, or w/e the hell anyone wants to do in the world, its does not in anyway or every have to concern you, they could give you a new version of Ein in 11 for HNM gear so you dont have to camp (or something like it).

Though thats not your purpose to have access to the same content/gear you hate the fact that we enjoy what you do not.