Why can't it always be like this?

[Shurrikhan]

This isn't about raider vs non-raider. This is about Square making another withdrawal of 15 dollars from your pocket.

The function of the gear is pointless, the rate of acquisition is what keeps you at your chair week-to-week, capping tomes, getting better for whatever reason you personally may have.

The point remains: if you accomplish all of those goals in 1 month, Square is likely to miss $75 over the next 5 when you cancel your sub because you've reached your goals and have nothing to do until next release.

This.

That said, they'd probably get a lot more milage out of alt-aholics if they simply made the weekly currency job-based, or something similar.