Will you quit if this game becomes raid-centric?

[Melian]

Instanced makes everything 100 times easier and removes any competition from the game.

I get that it removes the competition, and for that reason certainly agree that not everything should be instanced. However, I definitely approve of having a few things (a lot of things, even) that are. Some competition is good, and makes for a better community. How does it make it 100 times easier though (assuming we're not taking mpk attempts or the lag of 100 people standing on you into consideration as added challenge)?

Well the answer to that is what they did with Einherjar.

Yeah... that's a pretty good example I think. It was an event I enjoyed too. My favorite FFXI memories are probably of low manning tiamat with other people looking on impatiently/mad/jealous (back when people rushed out on pop, rather than actually sitting there camping Tiamat for days). But my second best memories are all probably from content like einherjar. I even had lots of fun doing it's easier version in limbus with my small ls, which was instanced stuff as well. My least favorite times were the competition over kings. I just didn't get a kick out of standing there multiple hours, 7 days a week.

So again, I think that some competition is great. But I'd really rather not see a repeat of the competition as time sink/botting reward. Even if the botters don't get it 100% of the time, they still managed a very high percent. I was in an ls that removed the darter dats in the aery before a lot of people figured that out. That's not good competition though, it's just allowing cheaters to get rewarded. And the time spent in the aery every day of the week wasn't that fun, despite getting the claim most days of the week. I can't imagine how unfun it would be for the people who almost never got to fight there.

Edit: As an aside, I want to say that I never removed the dats or botted myself. Which doesn't really excuse me any, because I certainly hung around people who did and took advantage of it plenty. Just stating that though.