Highly Notorious Monsters

[Alhanelem]

The few people, are more then you think. HNMS gave you filler content made it so you are not spamming the same raid/instance over and over and over all day.

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 (so including the time spent camping, we were there ALL DAY doing NOTHING most of the time). If you think that's reasonable, I want some of the drugs you're taking.

Timed pop? Sure. Fine! Spawn windows? hell the *bleep* to the no.

IF the game cannot provide the content required to keep them happy they will also quit playing and go else were.

and the game will be that much better off without them. Hopefully when they find no modern games that still have these "old school" mechanics, they'll realize how unhealthy it was.