Sol, I like you. You are my friend and I respect you, but I have to disagree with you on one thing. I think this post was written too close after Hamlet was released and you are or were under the impression that seals are a low drop rate. This is far from the case. Although the hamlets do get old after a while, you can go in with different types of set ups and achieve enough points for a gold chest. Which yields a viable seal drop rate.

However, this then goes to your main point that I find to be a good one. The fact that it's another spammable system. I am not a developer so I don't know how difficult or easy it is to create an innovative loot system, but is a spammable RNG loot system easier to develop than other options? I wonder if this is just taking the route that is easier to manage rather than being mindful about other factors. One major one that I can think of is allowing the content to last. Other games had large cool downs timers on their content and held higher drop rates that still looks to be the same progression to what we have in spam content. The difference is that in which you've pointed out that we get burnt out on these things pretty quickly.

This is something that really needs to change in the future. You can't keep people online and prolong player's interests with spammable content. Of course, we can think back to prior games we've played and remember getting sick of content that held those systems that had long cool down timers, but we still took part in them because the burn wasn't as severe. We can expand on that and suggest old content to be updated once in a while to keep it interesting. Change the objectives or have them randomized from the beginning. There is so much potential and this filler content for FFXIV pre 2.0 falls flat.

I cannot blame anyone for holding any amount of skepticism in FFXIV's future based on what is being developed in the present. What we can hope for, if there is any hope in you yet, is that this is only temporary and this is the way it is because it's the easy way to get this filler content out in a timely fashion.