Quote Originally Posted by Deakka View Post
Welcome most MMO's to date outside of possibly GW2 (wherein there are no OMGWTFBBQ BiS). The gear treadmill is proven to work, and it always gives you something to look forward to in the reasonable future. You're still on the XI mentality, where people rage anytime a former BiS item loses it's luster.

We can either go back to the ffxi days of low drop rates, 3-7 day spawn periods, and archaic dragon's aery camping, or we can go with the new style which means your gear may become obsolete in <7 years time. The old mentality really only works with FFXI, it just doesn't mesh with modern gaming.
Basically this:

While the gear treadmill isn't original, it works, and works well in modern day MMO's. I do believe it will take some FFXIV players a while to get use to this. For how this game is set up, I do believe this will be one of the better routes to take for this game.