The Future of Serious Gamers in ARR

[Reynhart]

Honestly, its not that I mind the casual/anti-grind/easy mode (whatever other ridiculous term you want to call them) gamers and their requests at all. My issue is that they're invading a Final Fantasy MMO and changing it from what the history of Final Fantasy MMOs have been.

"The history of Final Fantasy MMO" ?! You mean the one and only Final Fantasy MMO that existed before FF XIV. How come a single game defines a "history" ?!

Hell lets take a look at Final Fantasies in general. (Yes I realize there's a drastic difference between offline and online games so don't bother trying to explain this.) The purpose of a Final Fantasy game isn't to reach the end, its the journey along the way.

Right, let's take a look at Final Fantasies...where none required to hit the level cap except XI, and the journey was exploring the world, revealing the plot and meeting characters. Not mindless grinding like "Starting zone solo till level 10, then valkurm 10-20, qufim 20-24, yuthunga 24-28, etc..." FFXI was a terrible journey. If levelling required 6 months of quests, explorations, plot and reveals, a lot more people would be fine with it.

In FFXI, it took me a year to hit cap. Why? Because there was SO much to do along the way, so many people to meet and help and do stuff with that I didn't care one bit if I was at cap yet.

No, there wasn't. Capping was long because grinding mobs was long. You didn't take a single level meeting people and doing other stuff than grinding.

I get it. I'm part of the minority, but just because we're in the minority doesn't mean we can't respectfully disagree with some of the drastic changes that are being made to a series that was not originally meant for those of you that are demanding these changes. The unfortunate part is that apparently, the series is no longer meant for us now. I really hope you enjoy the game being made for you, because I don't want to see the series fail.

Once more, the series was never centered around leveling up, but exploring. And FFXIV, moving to a quest based leveling, if far closer to this aspect. Basically, the series was never made for you...only FFXI was.