EXP x2 feels just right for 2014, but even more's needed (looking at you, lvl. 50-75)

[Eyeballed]

The game is boring leveling to 99 alone, even with the Trust NPCs, which they do not guide you to, the game can not be very fun to just jump into and start playing in an enjoyable way. They give us Double XP so often it is starting not to matter if they keep it anyways, but there is not a single reason not to. You can claim its a hand out or makes it too easy, but so what? The point of the game is to play with others, or at least enjoy the game, no one at all is in lower level areas practically, and its hard to enjoy the game when you are basically told that before you even have the real option to play with others without being worthless, you have to go level up for a few days. You can say it doesn't take a few days, but without Double XP, yes, 50+ slows you down big time, Limit Breaks too if you're inexperienced, what's wrong with helping out new or leveling players? Really?

I forget, is this or is this not an MMORPG where at least hundreds of other players exist to join you on your quest to reach level cap? What's wrong with smashing the gas on everything is that there is a game that does exist before Lv99, and it is there for a reason. These games weren't meant to be soloed to cap, weren't meant for much at all to be soloed within reason. The more people keep asking for this to be destroyed the more this game and the more these types of game die.

[Demonjustin]

I forget, is this or is this not an MMORPG where at least hundreds of other players exist to join you on your quest to reach level cap? What's wrong with smashing the gas on everything is that there is a game that does exist before Lv99, and it is there for a reason. These games weren't meant to be soloed to cap, weren't meant for much at all to be soloed within reason. The more people keep asking for this to be destroyed the more this game and the more these types of game die.

The game population is already to low and the player levels to high to truly support a fun and entertaining game at lower levels. If we had people coming in high numbers or even decent numbers to play the game, that would be one thing, but we just flat out don't. There are not enough people in lower levels to truly justify keeping new players stuck there for prolonged periods of time anymore because the population is not located in those locations, instead, they are at level 99 fighting things there.

Another decently aged MMO, which closed down about a year or 2 ago I believe, was Phantasy Star Universe, they added both low and high level content and never really made it all to easy or fast to level up to higher levels past the rate it was normally, but at the same time, everyone was in the higher end areas and hardly anyone in lower level areas to the point everyone normally had to solo until level 50~60. There were not enough people joining the game to form groups to level with, instead, you often ended up alone and soloing until you reached the higher level areas where people were at. Mind you, this game was vastly different than FFXI, but the principle idea is the same, when a game ages to the point of having few new players joining the game you reach a point where the level speed needs enhanced to accommodate new players so that they can play with others more easily. As you said, there are hundreds of other players to join my in my quest to do things, but whats it matter when everyone else is miles ahead of me in level and I will have to reach level 99 either way before I can really play with them?