There's only slow paced leveling if you avoid fights, or know the game too well and skim through quickly. Or, if you are playing X-2, where right at the end there's a huge difficulty gap and you haven't been doing side quests.FFXII and FFX-2 are different in their own ways - and even though they have put people off FF, I don't think people will stop playing them. They just need to get their act together to bring back the classicness of the older ones.