I never expect any kind of comments from the devs, especially considering how quick the forum community is to take what is said and twist it, distort it, read stuff into that isn't there. Really, if they did give feedback on it, it would just spawn more QQ threads. If they don't, it still spawns QQ threads. It's not the crappy RNG (all RNG is crappy, but it's a basic tool of MMOs and table top games), or the crappy FATES that's killing the fun of this game for people, it's the obsession of how crappy the tools are. I personally thought that the relic quest was just as brain-dead boring and easy as ATMA farming, especially after the first time through it. All the devs did was listen to thousands of QQ posts pre-2.2 equating timesinks and crappy RNG to "difficulty" because somehow that made FFXI "hard."