To start, I know my ranks/physical level are not high as I have only recently (withing the past two weeks) started playing full time but, I think this needs to be said.

I am able to see why people are angry at this patch as it was a very large change and it was only a small part of what is to come but, all of this fighting amongst ourselves will do no good. (I'm looking at you post entitled "SP nerfed. We were lied to.") Instead of pointing fingers at each other; or at Yoshi-P for that matter; why doesn't the community begin to help one another out?

When FFXI come to the united states it was already prepackaged with the first expansion. Leveling camps were already somewhat established by the Japanese community that had had the game at least a full year before hand so not much work was needed on our part other then learning of them.

When new expansions were released we found new camps to compliment the ones we had, we had posted guides to help with getting the keys for Kazham and other such missions, people at that time at least helped to get things established for the community.

Now, Yoshi-P had made the statement that Guild Leves will no longer be the main focus on gaining levels but in fact be more catered to players who do not have a lot of time to play and a supplement to SP gain. That's fine, now that we have that information why don't we as a community (the founding fathers so to speak) of FFXIV lay the groundwork for the community as a whole and for future players.

Why don't we go out as a party of 4 or as a solo player, search for the leveling camps, search for the mobs that net good SP/hr that have decent re-spawn rates, test the areas and see how many parties/soloer the camps we find can support and present them to the community and help each other out instead of bickering amongst ourselves.

We're never going to get anywhere if we don't start somewhere. The changes will come and we will all have to adapt to them. People are saying they don't like auto attack but, FFXI had auto attack and I don't see anyone griping that it sucked. We were used to spamming one button to attack and gain TP, now that it has been made more like FFXIs' system more passive, people are angry? I honestly don't understand that especially if it's coming from former players or current players of FFXI.

All in all, I'm just saying why don't we start acting as a community rather then individuals.

One last thing. Yes, I've played around with the party invite feature and yeah, it is a bit clunky. Could it work better? Yes, it could but at this time it doesn't. The forums are here for a reason, the devs have shown that they read them. If we want our voices heard we can, in a calm manner voice our opinions and concerns and hope that they listen and hope for the best. That is all we can do.