After playing for a month...

[Thriar]

Very bored.... Having said that I have 50 MNK,CUL, and GSM. Only thing I do is spam Castrum and do my 8 AK runs a week. The level system is very boring in this game, I find myself falling asleep in the middle of the day when grinding fates. The only other MMO I played was FFXI and leveling in that game took a lot of time but was never boring to the point I wanted to sleep, FFXI you couldn't level from 1-50 (75) in level 10 gear like you can in XIV. In FFXI you had to be geared and do your job or you would get your sorry butt kicked from the party, XIV you join a fate party tag a mob smack it a few times and presto! max exp from the fate real fun........ not!

You haven't played XI in a few years have you? You can do that in XI now too ^^

SE realizes that for the masses, leveling cannot take months upon months if they expect to retain customers. People think abyssea ruined XI but abyssea gave XI its second wind to remain a MMO in today's current market.

The problem SE is running into that Trion did very well with rift is the rate of introducing content. They're not satisfying the same concept they had during leveling that they need at end-game and that is end-game content getting pushed out faster than your average player can complete. BC is not enough for your average player. They made a big mistake not including crystal tower at release. Trion for the first year and a half pushed out end-game content faster than most if not all other mmos on the market. F2P kind've changed that but under Scott Hartsman, it was constant content ONCE A MONTH. Not every 3 months like SE likes to think is aggressive. And this wasn't bad content, this was quality content.

If anything, SE should've taken a page from Trion in this department.

Oh did I mention how awesome their customer service was and how awesome their dev interaction was with the community. Because it was pretty awesome. I wish that game never went f2p