Simplicity over complexity, time to change.

[Gilthas]

No, see, you don't get it if you think it was there to waste your time. You do not get that some things require subtle influence and REQUIRE you not to have instant satisfaction in order to be enjoyed. A living world is one such thing, I would say progression is another (delayed satisfaction of obtaining a really cool unique item for example). It was not added (only, somethings certainly kept in mind a subscription) merely to waste time but to give the world flavor and enhance the big experiences. However, since that is and will always be your stance apparently, theres no further point in debating you on it.

And yet the big problem of your argument is and will always be that you don't need to waste a player's time to enhance the world for them. There is literally nothing preventing you from going down the slow road, only your own problems with seeing others around you on the highway.

So you played FFXI for years and never touched another mmo? Heck even I played wow for a few months to check it out. I've played tones of free to play mmos. I know what I like, I don't like short term mmos with instant gratification which this game is. There is literally no work to be done with anything you do in the game. As I said before, a player who plays this game everyday will be in the same league as the person who logs in once a week. It's a terrible design flaw to have everyone on equal footing. The only thing that separates the everyday player and once a week player is SOMETIMES the skill level. Though, what does skill in this game have to do with anything when fights are pretty easy in this game because they can be memorized just by a few times playing them, hell just watch a fight on youtube a few times.

Sorry if you don't get to be a special snowflake.

Some of us aren't driven by selfishness as I play a lot (probably too much) and have zero problems with people that play less reaching my level or leaving me in the dust.

Though if you actually played the game you'd see that there are things in the game that take time to achieve.

My goal is getting to a point where everyone can enjoy this game equally, you have to understand something, as much as ppl ask for ffxi-2 (i don't think this is the case) this won't be happening, hence we won't steal your fun, instead we want to add some fun for us, the way to achieve this is getting collaboration from both sides, but all i hear is a plain "no to ffxi-2".

You have to realize that some of the things you're asking for are simply incompatible with keeping some of the stuff people like about the current game.

[ErBear]

Sorry if you don't get to be a special snowflake.

What, it's not about being special, I'm not a hardcore gamer. I like seeing people with awesome stuff that I know I'll never get, so try again. There needs to be rewards for those who do have the time and effort to play a game all the time. Also, people argue people don't have the time for mmos anymore.... well, sorry but people have just as much time as they did 8 years ago. People who played FFXI 10 years ago, had family, kids, jobs, schooling... Nothing has changed, the only thing that has changed is the amount of people who now play video games compared to 10 years ago. They are the majority now that these game companies are trying to cater to because that's where the money is.