Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
Players being rewarded for the effort they put into a game sounds pretty sweet to me. I guess that's the thing about personal tastes - there's no right or wrong and they differ from person to person.

Perhaps it might mean that other MMO's will have more players out in the game world rather than congregating in the major cities as is often the case in FFXIV.
The problem is that people's efforts are not rewarded at all. I could grind for hours, pvp in my node wars and be active the entire week. But a player sat in that castle doing NOTHING still made more silver. Overall I would ignore those players as much as I could. But when it came to top grind spots, well good luck trying to grind a spot to catch up. Esp once they made PvP changes that made gear even MORE important. Previously I could out duel a person with 100 gear score higher than me. Once they changed things so that gear trumps all. Well the game was as good as dead to me at that point.