Quote Originally Posted by Zaaku View Post
Abyssea destroyed 8 years worth of balance and battle mechanics in a single expansions. Completely nulled out a majority of what FFXI memorable and engaging and was a massive slap in the face to players who spent months if not years accomplishing a feat only to have new players do the same in a matter of days. FFXI is not FFXI anymore.

Had they not ruined it I would happily be biding my time there until 2.0 hits to see if this whole gambit is even worth investing in. Now stop attacking every single ex-FFXI player with the tails debacle. That is MY bitchfit ammo. Dragon has nothing to do with it.
At the same time, it brought a faster pace of play and allowed the quote-unquote hardcore gamers to do whatever they wanted in smaller groups, compared to full alliances which a lot of people can't afford to group up anymore -- all to a slowly dying game. Not because of being "bad", but because of age. We might've loved FFXI pre-abyssea, but in all honesty, Abyssea helped bring some juice back into it by allowing newer players to get right into later content at a faster pace. Admit it, if there wasn't an abyssea, you'd be complaining "I have nobody to play with", or the other way around, many new players would be put off by the learning curve this game has, especially without people to help you through the content.

I apologize for incoherent content in my posts, I'm seriously tired.