Fish not being useful is a lot more detrimental for Fishermen than a Dragoon (or any other class) having drops that don't NPC well... because drops are not the sole reason to play Dragoon, right? A true equivalent would be for a DoW/DoM class not to be useful in combat at all.
Anyway, I understand that SE has to watch out for RMT and make fishing more enjoyable. I haven't played FFXI but from some play time on 1.0 I found fishing to be pretty cool as is, and the fish sold for good coin, roughly the same as other DoL drops. I hope they didn't just gimp one class of the game due to RMT, that'd be really sad.Â
Anyway, I understand that SE has to watch out for RMT and make fishing more enjoyable. I haven't played FFXI but from some play time on 1.0 I found fishing to be pretty cool as is, and the fish sold for good coin, roughly the same as other DoL drops. I hope they didn't just gimp one class of the game due to RMT, that'd be really sad.Â