Quote Originally Posted by Azazela View Post
Running an instance 60 times is not about instant gratification, its just terrible design that is not fun.
No, you're wrong there. Every game, when you hit the level cap has a more limited selection of content for you to play at that level that produces the items needed to obtain the ultimate weapon/armor/whatever. It's can't really be any other way, if you give more cap level quests that drop the rewards, obtaining the ultimate becomes to easy, if you have content at that level that doesn't drop what is needed, no one will run it (though they will bitch to high heaven about it) - which is why so many people who share your point of view are running CM day in, day out.

Of course all those capped players out there could be running lower level content for fun with their friends or folks they meet in the game, they could be trying other classes or different gear or builds. They could be crafting or gathering or just wandering around helping people at random. You know, doing the stuff that an MMORPG is here for.

Folks that hit level cap and grind a single dungeon because that's all they see as being worth doing are not playing a MMORPG, that style of play treats FFXIV as a single player game with random, anonymous online matching. If that is what you want, then another kind of game may be for you, because that's not what MMORPGs and in particular FFXIV are about.