Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
No, because PvP isn't a fundamentally flawed game mechanic like spawn windows are.

Spawn windows are the only thing I'm fighting against. I want to go to the NM when I know it's going to show up, and either fight it or not. I don't want to sit and wait for 3 hours or more. Why would you have NMs with shitty spawn conditions "as an option?" That would be a pretty terrible option that pretty much nobody would end up actually taking. I dont' care if an HNM takes days to pop, as long as I don't also have to wait for hours after that spawn time is up. NMs and drops that are only rare because the number of people willing to put up with stupid design decisions is low is not a good way to make things.

Spawn. Windows. Are. Garbage. They add nothing to the experience. Why have them? 24, 48 hour pop windows are fine- It's ok If I only get to see the NM once every so often- but I shouldn't have to devote several additional hours of my time doing absolutely nothing in addition to the 1-3 days of it not being up. I love HNMs- just not spawn windows.

Ask anyone who's ever camped nidhogg in FFXI what their favorite part about it was. I don't think anyone will answer "oh, the fact that between spawn windows there's nothing to do except play isketch or stir up drama with the other LSes".

So in this long winded post, the only argument this person has against me is I'm editing my posts. That's not an argument. The fact that I edit my posts means nothing relevant to the discussion- I edit my posts because I write down what's on my mind, and often I click "post" before I'm really done getting it all out. That's not a crime, nor does it detract from my argument. I did nothing sneaky. My post was still "new" when I edited it.

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edit for one more thought: To some degree I understand why long time players of ffxi want to have things like they had in the old days. That's fine and all, but this isn't a retro game. It's something new and modern- And mechanics that require large amounts of doing nothing or really long cooldowns between activities just don't have a place in modern games- We live in a faster moving world and it is unhealthy for us to be forced to play all day long when we have lives. Now I'm not talking about casual vs hardcore. I played both FFXI and FFXIV a lot in spite of having a job/life- quite a few hours every day- that's not "casual." Casual is an hour here, an hour there, probably not even playing every single day. I don't understand why the few people who can still sit their arse in front of a computer 16 hours a day should be more entitled to have content just for them than anyone else- and if they do have it, why it should give better rewards than anyone else can get. Playing to such an unhealthy level isn't something we should be rewarding.
Spawn "Windows" keep the window moving, because you believe it or not are not the only person playing the game, it needs to move time zones, windows also give a buffer for people who do not know the current tod to find it, like in FF11 if you searched Behemoths dominion there was a window of time every single day when you could catch a large number of people in that zone, so you would know the window is open.

You being very like a very casual player would be hurt more by no windows at all than anyone else, because I can promise you unless you play those maby 10min's that HNM is alive, you will never see it.