I agree with you one some points, but you have to remember how horrible XI was when it first came out too. I played at JP launch, not NA but JP and there were so many things that were horrible. But 2 years later, they finally got right. In XI, grinding really was no different here, spam ws's and kill as fast as you can for more xp. Yes the NM's here have no real strategy but neither did most NM's in XI up until recently with the new Abyssea NM's. So we just have to give it time. It's going to remain free till they know the game is what it should be. I would just rather not them put EVERYTHING from XI in here. If I wanted to keep playing it, I would've stayed in Vana'Diel.