Allied races was the exact reason I quit WoW back in 2018 because I didn’t like the way they made you grind and jump through unnecessary hoops to unlock them.

Races should be included in a paid expansion like they always used to be, until the Blizzard devs had to come up with a new way to increase their most prized metric: time played. So instead of having new races as a key feature of a new expansion, they made an epic grind and timesink to unlock them. Just like they do with flying.

Now, to be fair, they removed the rep requirement for Allied Races, and they are easier to obtain now, but they shouldn’t need to be unlocked in the first place.

If FFXIV ever does anything like that, I’d probably peace out here as well.