Quote Originally Posted by Nedkel View Post
Sadly, but if the game is challenging and complicated, it will simply just not be succesful in the finance perspective.
There's a staggering difference between challenging and complicated and mindnumbingly easy and trivial.

FF14 being the latter is not good design. Nor would your first statement, but you're implying there's no in-between and that's just silly and would make IMO for a much better designed leveling structure and would also likely help the end-game not be such a culture shock to new players.