Quote Originally Posted by Hulan View Post
Someone on the dev team really loves Skinner Boxes. That being said, my suspicion (and I'll admit, it's entirely a hunch and has no grounding in fact), is that they are doing everything they can to keep the 1.0 game going and populated with a skeleton crew while the rest of the team works on 2.0. Skinner Boxes are the fastest and easiest way to artificially keep someone playing a "game" for a long time, so it's no wonder they would be over-utilizing it to keep people around until 2.0.

If that is the case, hopefully we will see a substantial decrease in pRNG based content in the future (read as 2.0+).
Agree 500% with you, FFXIV has way too much Skinner Boxes.
Which is why I play less instead of playing more.
I'm just hoping for 2.0 to have significantly less Skinner Boxes.