The difference lies with the fun factor in this game literally being completely drained by the addition of ridiculous "beast tribe" dailies, unnecessary changes to systems such as spiritbonding which ultimately hurt the economy even more, gated features that don't even deserve to be gated such as the ability to dye your chocobo, AF armor, and silly quests to unlock some emotes.

This is mostly my opinion from someone who has completed all of coil and who has an FC and doesn't really have to worry about the gates...just keeping others in mind but I also do find most of the stuff that gets added to the game to be rather boring, pointless, or just nonsense.

flame on.