FFXIV is in a Prime Position to Make Some Drastic Changes

[BlatantPyre]

... MMO competition is grinding .... <and pretty much everything else she said.>

You do realize *everything* in MMOs, especially FFXIV, is grinding, right? Also, in games, competition does NOT necessitate grinding, unless it is developed that way, and that can be said about anything and everything in the medium. As far as competition goes...

I gotta get this off my chest...it saddens me the younger generation is being so heavily deceived on stuff like this, I've run into it elsewhere. Most seem to be confusing greed with competition, and while the two aren't mutually exclusive, neither are they intrinsically linked. Someone said something about it causing death earlier - but what she described had nothing to do with competition, it was greed.

Competition in its purest form is not only healthy, it is *essential* to life. Greed wields many aspects of things we need to survive in order to feed itself and essentially destroy, but that doesn't mean we should then hate that which was used. Would you stop eating food because it's possible to poison it? I hope not...

Competition does not beget death, it does not rely on loss, and it does not have to be unbalanced. Greed and avarice do, and they will employ whatever they can - peoples needs, empathy, and yes, even competition, to meet their ends. Please try not to be so easily deceived on such things...no matter who it comes from, no matter the reported intentions. You'll find you will cause that which you are trying to avoid...

And with that out of the way...as far as our suggestion of expanded PvP goes, I believe it was even suggested that grinding be left out in one of the posts, give us some even ground to stand on so it could be about skill. I think in the end we're just asking for more options as far as play styles go, so that both casual and hardcore players have things they can enjoy.