Quote Originally Posted by Kaurie View Post
There is really no need to be so rude. I understood Reiryuu's point completely. The 'point' was that numbers make an insignificant change to the run, where in fact they do make a significant change. I used actual data to prove that point. I am sorry that numbers upset you.
Actually, Preypacer hit the nail on the head on what the example was meant to show there. I don't want to fuel the fire so to speak, but since it was my example and my point to be made I feel I had to chime in on that.

Is the only worth of other players the number they make when they press buttons? That seems like a pretty shallow game to me. Why have a game with pretty graphics, music, story and animations and such like that at all? Why not have a giant black box with boxes all over the place and see how fast you can press the buttons in the right combination to make the number as high as possible? It reminds me of a scene in the Phantom Tollbooth-- they come to a city called Reality which is a town no one can see because they stare at their feet so they can get to where they're going as quickly as possible. Over time, the city of Reality faded away to nothing and now it's completely invisible and no one can see it. But no one cares because they know where they're going and they are only concerned with how fast they get there. Is this what FFXIV has or is becoming? Is that what you'd like it to be?