Why was the game built around guildleves?

[gifthorse]

I remember when the complaint was: "I want to do more than 8 leves every 36 hours".

Since release I still don't think I've managed to do more than 6 per reset. They're just such a ridiculous concept. They aren't proper quests.

[Mack]

I don't mind leves themselves, they're not bad, but I mind that they're so central to everything. The maps are designed simply to spread the players out to do more leves (anticipating more than 500 players per server that is). I honestly hope they scrap it so make it an extra without all the fluff you get from it. What I mean is don't give so much SP, so much gil, etc. from these leves, give a decent amount because otherwise they become central once again as people will flock over to the thing that benefits them most.