
I was glad they nerfed Omega Weapon in FF8 once FF9 came out. I didn't want to have to gather a bunch of Holy Wars and stuff to get my Proof of Omega. /flimsystrawman
Housing isn't really a good example of a content lock. It requires you to do a shitty dungeon, yes, and it also requires you to have several millions of gil to acquire the thing. If some newbie player can't find help or the desire to ask someone to assist them, they're pretty likely to not have stumbled onto a fortune on top of things.
If you're talking FC rooms, which only cost 300k, I have to wonder why it's such a big deal to ask someone to unsync a lv60 and just steamroll it for you in a few minutes. If you're in an FC that won't do that for you, are you sure you want to spend 300k to be locked to them?
Housing isn't really a good example of a content lock. It requires you to do a shitty dungeon, yes, and it also requires you to have several millions of gil to acquire the thing. If some newbie player can't find help or the desire to ask someone to assist them, they're pretty likely to not have stumbled onto a fortune on top of things.
If you're talking FC rooms, which only cost 300k, I have to wonder why it's such a big deal to ask someone to unsync a lv60 and just steamroll it for you in a few minutes. If you're in an FC that won't do that for you, are you sure you want to spend 300k to be locked to them?