Quote Originally Posted by Rasikko View Post
Eventually the harder ones will be forced on us, and Ill have my finger on the cancel subscription button ready for when that happens.
What are you defining as "the harder ones"? Listing things from FFXI doesn't mean anything to me.

If you mean EX/Savage, I don't see any reason for those to be forced on us eventually. All requirements thus far have been for story elements - from requiring the original hard-mode primals before the final events of ARR to ensure the questgiver Scions weren't left waiting at the Waking Sands forever, to building on the Ivalice plot line, to whatever they have in store for us in 5.3. EX/Savage has no additional story, therefore there is no need for them to become prerequisite for anything since you experienced it all in the normal version.

If they wanted to maximise what they force us into, rather than keeping it to a minimum, Omega could have easily been made a prerequisite for Bozja since it sets up (particularly for a non-1.0 player) the backstory of Cid's PTSD over the incident.