Seriously 3-5 minute repop on NMs?

[snowstriker]

This is a good point. Casual players are fickle people. They rarely stick with a game for "the long haul"... which is why I don't think that any game should be "Casual focused". They should make it accessible to casuals, but not cater to them.

I was a hardcore FFXI player for 6 years and I can tell you I did not enjoy staring at my screen waiting for NMs to spawn, not in the slightest. Engaging time-consuming activities for hardcore players is all well and good. Waste of time, boring, uneventful activities is just bad design and masochistic, not hardcore.