Quote Originally Posted by Medved View Post
I could not disagree more....have you played other MMORPG before saying that ? I can play no problem and grind an RPG. Why would I not be able to do the same in a MMORPG ? The only difference is some teamwork, it does not need to be more painful than having all my teeth removed...your only using FFXI has your example and disregarding everything else out there. But the other game out there are the ones having player influx, while FFXI was dying from poor gaming mechanics.
FFXI is like 9 years old man. Of course it is dying. In its hay day it was one of the best contenders around. Had it not been for WoW and its out of control success I doubt we'd even been talking about this because FFXIV would have adopted the same difficulty it started out with in FFXI. It is only because every single old white guy who invests in gaming stocks sees the $$$ signs that they whip lash devs into being more like WoW. There are plenty of games out there. Most of them are following the same trend of casualization. Is it so much to ask that ONE doesn't?! Especially if that one is the sequel to a game that is used to torture political prisoners?