This is why Hardcore Content SUCKS.

[SilvertearRen]

Cut it out with the "your party sucks, you suck, etc" sort of statements. Those aren't helping the issue I'm trying to bring up. There will be some NMs in the future that will be camped 24/7, just like it was for FFXI - and I want to AVOID that scenario. PERIOD.

I updated the OP with a more thought out statement at the header.

I wasted two hours of my life, and Square Enix is not going to refund that to me. That makes me upset.

Btw, what I described is typified as a "hardcore-casual"...basically, gamers who are hardcore, but have VERY LITTLE TIME to invest in their games...therefore, they want to maximize the returns on their efforts. If two hours is going to pay off with nothing, it's gonna piss us off immensely.

[Corrderio]

Cut it out with the "your party sucks, you suck, etc" sort of statements. Those aren't helping the issue I'm trying to bring up. There will be some NMs in the future that will be camped 24/7, just like it was for FFXI - and I want to AVOID that scenario. PERIOD.

I updated the OP with a more thought out statement at the header.

I wasted two hours of my life, and Square Enix is not going to refund that to me. That makes me upset.

Because most of the stuff camped on a daily basis in XI was either....

1. On a long spawn time
2. Drops were sellable

[Mack]

I wasted two hours of my life, and Square Enix is not going to refund that to me. That makes me upset.

You want SE to refund you time? I think had they managed to develop time travel they wouldn't be in the gaming business. Stupid topic is stupid and you have no argument - people have already told you to wait out the competition or go camp other NMs.

[Gun_Anam]

I wasted two hours of my life, and Square Enix is not going to refund that to me. That makes me upset.

Yes, YOU wasted 2 hours of your life. SE never wasted 2 hours of your life. You could have easily gone to the NM spawn point, seen it was busy, then decided to come back at a later time. Instead it's your own greed to get the item asap that is causing your grief. Most people won't even have logged on to try the new content yet and you're crying about not having gotten a new item within the first couple of hours of it being introduced to the game.

It's not about being casual or hardcore, it's about having a little bit of common sense