I agree with you 100%.

-But-

One thing that i like about the complexity of the game is that it turns away gamers that would otherwise just blow thru the game and make it terrible. Its like the game takes a certain sense of intelligence to comprehend and then a certain level of social skills in order to succeed, effectively making it a more 'adult' game.

Now, i know most people would rage that that is agism, but look at WoW and Rift - Those communities are just terrible. Sure, there are good guilds and great people who play those games, but by far, they're full of undesirable idiots who are out to cop a high off putting your average person down and then hide behind rules and GMs when there is a backlash.

I've never seen this behavior in FFXI and i don't expect to see it here, since the game demands a certain maturity from it's players.

In more simple terms: WoW = Sports Bar, FFXIV = Bistro Bar and Grill.