Quote Originally Posted by Lexxuk View Post
This games pretty much build for the Facebook Games generation.
XI was one of the only games to actually do that.
Even EQ1, which predated it, didn't have nearly as much gear swapping. You still had "sets" for different situations, but you have those here as well, especially tanks.
Also I will continue to argue that promoting in-combat gear swapping was horrid design in FFXI's case. Inventory was already ludicrously limited (you started with 30 slots and could go to 80. This included your equipment that was currently equipped. They later added more inventory options but that was years down the road)
Just because something is more convenient doesn't mean it's dumbed down. Often time even the creators would rather have the more convenient option over the more complex option.