A person who was looking to come back and play.

[Hyrist]

Thank you for a pleasant response.

It may be that I have been unfortunate since 1.0 and have changed myself. Maybe I just need to find a group to play with where everyone just enjoys playing the game and isn't just pushing content to get it done and get the best gear. Which is unfortunately what I see most of. But a response like yours does actually give me more hope for the games future than you would think!

If you're looking for compassionate players with a thrill for the game, and don't mind a little bit of hokey role-playing. On your server there is a Free Company group called We Say Hurray. They're a good friendly bunch who love having a good time and have players of all walks. Look up Sas Kiot on the server and tell him Hyrist sent you with a basket of Anima and dirty Magazines, and that I miss them.

[shane239]

If you're looking for compassionate players with a thrill for the game, and don't mind a little bit of hokey role-playing. On your server there is a Free Company group called We Say Hurray. They're a good friendly bunch who love having a good time and have players of all walks. Look up Sas Kiot on the server and tell him Hyrist sent you with a basket of Anima and dirty Magazines, and that I miss them.

Best response to a comment I've ever got Thanks Hyrist

[Keres]

The sense of community that was around in 1.0 is almost completely gone and I don't think it will ever come back. You can now do all the content without any grouping as such. Before 2.0 if you wanted to kill HNMs you needed to get a group together (lets ignore the THM sololing everything :P) and go out and do the content. So it became a community game. ARR is a solo MMO now.

In 1.0, you didn't have to group for anything, whatsoever, before the level cap. Compare that to today, where the game actually requires you to group for every dungeon throughout the main scenario. Sure, you can queue up solo, but I'll take that any day over shout-spamming "{Party} {Can I have it?} {White Mage} AF quest {Help me out!} 3/8 {/tell}" in Ul'dah for 2 hours just to get anything done.

[shane239]

In 1.0, you didn't have to group for anything, whatsoever, before the level cap. Compare that to today, where the game actually requires you to group for every dungeon throughout the main scenario. Sure, you can queue up solo, but I'll take that any day over shout-spamming "{Party} {Can I have it?} {White Mage} AF quest {Help me out!} 3/8 {/tell}" in Ul'dah for 2 hours just to get anything done.

Ya that part was not great but I feel like because of that you got to know people around the server a lot better and people on at your time than using the DF and not really getting to know your server at all.

But again I might just be remembering the good times and forgetting the bad!

[RakaMaimhov]

OP:

It really sounds to me like maybe this game isn't for you because you dislike literally EVERY single thing about this game that they've no plans of changing, or things that they deliberately changed TO.

I agree with you on a lot of your points, btw. I've been on the fence for a long time about quitting this game because a lot of this stuff has gotten old and tired and they need to move on to bigger, bettter things, deeper gameplay.

Oh, and:
The throw away gear system can't really change at this point without somewhat undermining half the economy of the game.

[Kiroh]

You know something is severely wrong when Rokien starts making sense. ._.

[ErBear]

You know something is severely wrong when Rokien starts making sense. ._.

Its funny, because I've been saying the exact same things in the past lol Just people can actually see what I was afraid of when the game was releasing now.

[Clavaat]

1. Content(instances)

As it grows, it becomes more diverse. While not difficult, take into consideration new players who experience this for the first time. They choose a High Level DR and they have so many options as to what they'll get.

2. Gear Progression

This is a small gripe to me. In order to progress properly, you need to balance your gear. Going from soldiery gear to poetic gear will not be a straight improvement. You will still need to balance out accuracy, changes to VIT, etc. There should be more diversity here, I agree, but you're not looking at the whole picture. And who's to say this won't taper off at some point? I would like to have 11 different i150 chest pieces to choose from. Whether it happens or not, though, I still see some progress in this sense.

3. Mounts

Irrelevant. This doesn't matter at all.

4.Ps3

Irrelevant.

5. Expansion Pack

I don't understand this justification. It being a known area in lore shouldn't make it free. It doesn't matter if you waited since 1.0, the entire game changed since then.

6.Crafters

Say what you will, gear optimization has a lot of good stuff coming out of crafters. Also, food and alchemy are always needed, lest we forget. I would like -some- improvement in this regard, but overall it's fine the way it is.

7. P2P/F2P

Irrelevant. None of the things in the shop matter. If you don't want them, don't buy them. If you do want them, don't buy them anyway, they won't help you. Not playing because "it could possibly maybe get worse" is a bad reason. Until it gets to that point, it shouldn't affect your decision. You can't predict the future, and no, MMO history doesn't matter. Every game is different, and have different plans. You have to quit MMO's eventually, be it from personal choice or servers going down. No MMO is truly endless, that'd be silly. Enjoy it for as long as it can, within the game itself, and then quit eventually.