Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
This is a great way to rephrase one of my core points. There are players that consider the time spent leveling to be a core part of the experience while others seem to grind it out and write it off immediately. I agree completely; that part of the content isn't meant to have the much of a sense of achievement placed upon it. I think the people who do are people who tend to compare themselves to others far too much, striving to be the people they see ahead of them so hard that even just getting the same level is an achievement.

I don't think the inclination to feel that way should be emphasized as so important to the DEVELOPMENT of the game, only the PLAYING of it. I just don't have fun anymore.
see my problem with what your talking about is,

i dont really see what it has to do with this game right now, if anything it feels like exp will soon become an afterthought, with some adventures and what not, a bit of an exciting thing sometimes, but with how much and how fast you can get it, or the means to do it fairly steadily and slowly through leves, without much time, It really doesnt seem exp is the focus of the game anymore.

Seems to be more focused on content, even the gear changes make it so you can actually feel accomplishment hunting midlevel gears. The other focuses seem to be on content, in terms of job development and exposition being a quest/content based thing. Even dungeons and ifrit battle, chocobos etc seem to focus more on the adventuring aspect of the game.

Dont really see the game going sp grind heavy, in fact seems to be going away from that.