The interesting thing about the whole Kaiten removal from SAM is, that this isn't the first time Squeenix pulls off a stunt like that. During ShB Launch, they straight up removed not only Heavy, Shadowflare, Miasma 1&2, from SCH, but ALSO Energy Drain at first. The Community got so mad during that time, that they immediately returned Energy Drain 2 Weeks later.


About the thing of turning this Game into single player mode, it has more drawbacks than actual benefits, allow me to elaborate.

FFXIV is, as much as Squeenix likes to state otherwise, a MMO first and a RPG second by DESIGN, and while you "can" run Dungeons with freaking Bots, it defeats the main purpose of the Genre, which IS social interaction. Content needs to be oversimplified in order for Bots to work, since the moment they hit a wall of progress (because they die), youre done for.

Secondly, it takes ALOT of ressources, which would have been better spent elsewhere. I think its quite unfair that Squeenix decides to inpliment Bots, while ignoring core issues like the bland Job design, undertuned Dungeons and Raids, useless Levequests (despite explaining specific Mechanics, almost NONE of those ever happen outside of said Levequest) and Content that has simply being forgotten, like Chocobo Racing and Lord of Verminion.


But maybe the Trust System will fix it, by inplimenting Blockchain into it, so you gotta buy your NFT for it first.