Anyone wanted to see any kind of merits like FFXI had?

[Klefth]

And really, people in FFXI had no problems playing new content? Who in their right mind even did COP Dynamis? Or most of the ENMs? Vrtra (sort of)? Hydra? Several other NMs? There's a lot of high level content in FFXI that went unused.

Tons of people did ENMs for money, and CoP Dynamis was pretty damn common. As for the rest, it didn't go unused just because of other older content, but because it didn't have any relevant drops. Who in their right mind went out of their way to kill Vrtra? Or Hydra?

I liked how in XI, they managed to keep both old and new content relevant (before they shat on the game with Abyssea). It always gave you a lot of options to work on. You'd have to have played for many years to run out of content to do. Unfortunately, the way modern MMOs are going, content gets "old" and obsolete within few months, and honestly, I don't know how they intend to keep a stable player base that way. I hope ARR doesn't go in that direction as well.