Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
HNMs are not filler content. You couldn't do HNMs while you were waiting for something else to happen, because they would happen at set times of day. "filler content" implies it's something you can do while you're waiting to do something else. but when the "filler content" HNMs have better loot than the rest of the content, everything else is more like filler content for HNMs.

And no, the few people are not more than I think. The people who participated in HNMs were a small minority of total active players in FFXI. And then the portion of those people who actually liked the part about sitting at the camp doing nothing for hours is a small subset of those players.

All I'm against and people seem to keep glossing over this, is spawn windows. You don't need them. I don't care how many days the HNM takes to spawn- I only care if when the HNM is due to spawn, I have to go and sit there waiting for it to come for a random amount of time and then when my group doesn't win the claim, I just threw away 3-4 hours- what's worse is you couldn't just leave when you didn't win, because "they might wipe" (though rarely did they ever). So that's even more time wasted. I remember staying at a Tiamat for 7 hours waiting for another group to wipe. If you think that's reasonable, I want some of the drugs you're taking.
You will never understand that your shit ls experiences does not define the entire gaming world. HNM's were easily filler content, you like a few others who I have a hard time believing actually played FF11 seem to forget that dungeons/raids had cooldowns, generally 3 days long, for these people that you feel you can judge for playing more than you run out of things to do considering doing Einherjar/dynamis/salvage and you can even throw in leveling did not take up even 20hrs a week which is honestly low play time.

Einherjar - 2 times a week = 1hr
Dynamis - (atleast my dynamis ls) 2 times a week = 3-4hrs (in total) to full clear any given zones
Salvage - maby 30min-1hr/day

Just in events your looking at maby 12hrs, and many people in HNM's actually didnt do salvage, ill even bump it to 17hrs for you to include lvling/normal NM time.

When no events were happening you wait for ToDs to come up, I even camped normal NM's inbetween events and HNM's to fill that time. The fact that you play video games to stop playing as soon as possible is like buying a coloring book thats already filled in so you dont have to color now. MMO's should not be beatable by anyone, no matter how much you play, even LS's like excellence/NiN/Apathy/Armada held a massive amount of members who played far more than the company I kept and they never truely got close to completely winning the game.

You want these changes to make the game more beatable for you, you personally, we want the game to slow us down, to hold us back, many of us have been with SE sense the FF series fkn started and truely do not want to move to different games if a decent game could even be found that isnt taken over by casuals, we want this game to work I promise you more than you do.