Quote Originally Posted by Kaedan View Post
And at the time of the first expansion for the Japanese only version of FFXI, the only endgame content was Dynamis and Sky.
Dynamis and Sky were both added with RotZ. Pre-Zilart FFXI had a level cap of 50 and the Shadow Lord was the end of the main story. "Endgame" was only a few BCNM fights.

Which proves the OP wrong even more.