Quote Originally Posted by Yun_Tsuri View Post
Gonna quote myself, a post I've made on another thread, so I am in topic here;
MMORPGs are basically dead imho today, the only way FFXIV survives is glamour (servers been literally empty for weeks since few months ago now) and the dressing-up feature the game is too focused on. So calling FFXIV devs the best ones because they sell glamour to make money cause we have no new or interesting contents is ways too much. Been playing FFXI since its NA release in 2003 (and I am from EU, I assure you making a NA account ready while living in EU at its time was harder than any FFXIV raid out there today), that game (and same goes for the original WoW team) had the greatest MMORPG dev team of all time with immense expansions giving you months - or even years of playtime with no catch-up patches and everything being fair and hard when it comes to gear especially. A great MMORPG is your second life, where dedication, skill, design and OST comes together and gives you memories you'll collect and bring with you forever. FFXIV, the way it is now since ARR, runs around comic micro-events, glamours and tons of old FF references with literally no innovation. Tomestone system is actually the worst point / gearing up system in MMO world where you need to repeat the same old contents in order to get cheap gear everyone has access to. And I don't even want to talk about the relic system which is literally a joke, on FFXI it required the highest amount of gil, a couple of years of various farm and clearing the strongest Dynamis bosses in game. But man, you had the fucking strongest weapon in game 10-15 people a server only obtained.
Forgive me for being harsh, but after reading this, I received two impressions from you.

1) "New content isn't New content unless its content I'm interested in! SE should only update the parts of the game I enjoy!"
2) "How dare everyone have the opportunity to earn gear and enjoy every part of the game?! These peasants should not have the option to be able to stand next to me, just beneath me as I stand around AFK being admired with my Raid Gear that requires 12 hours a day of playtime commitment!"