How did we go from this

The one thing that keeps me from being interested in playing this game is the whole gear swapping to use one ability macro thing.

>25 people or more
>FF mmo
Try 8 at a time!

What did they do?

They used to be 2 hour. They're 1 hour or less now. Never were 24 hours. That'd been rad

Oh yes, much better.

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Play Neverwinter

FFXI and other MMO's from pre 2004:
>Auto attacks took 6-10 seconds to go off for a single blow
>Skills where special and you maybe did one every 20-30 seconds at best due towards cooldown length and resources.
>Stances wheren't even a thing, more less DoT's where few and far between
>Most content could be cleared with at more 4-6 people who where willing to grit it out
>Players had to make their own groups or go solo
>MMO's post WOW
>You're using a skill every 2-3 seconds and are expected to rapid fire these without any intermission
>Content started asking for more players at once
>The need to keep redoing content so the game would ensure it had players running older stuff for newer players benefits without feeling intimidated by asking
>the ever admiassing of random stances, resources, and mechanics to add layers of complexity while in reality limiting play styles even greater then the slower MMO's would do.

MMO's try to be more then what they should, and people got too thinned skinned to talk and ask for help, leading towards an environment that favors the new and cripples the old till they leave.

Just having a map and quest markers would have been enough.

You are describing why I hated EQ and FFXI.

>They used to be 2 hour
Fuck, accidentally read his comment and typed 24 instead of 2.
Here are the abilities.
ffxiclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/One_Hour_Ability

Is FFXI any good these days? As in has it changed for the worse over the years from its haydays