Quote Originally Posted by Gilthas View Post
You have a really bad habit of ignoring the context of posts.
The guy was saying that the NM system of FFXI worked because it has a claim/credit system, which obviously means that he's talking about non-popped NMs.
Tupsi explained it well, there were popped NMs even before abyssea, you had roaming and popped NMs, if you needed or wanted gear from an NM you could hunt it or make gil to buy it, or you could just get different gear from another source.

The ffxi NM system worked because it was challenging, competitive and not mandatory, of course this system can't work in FFXIV, but it's not because it's outdated or boring, it's just because this game has some serious limitations to introduce it.