Level 99 - Trial of the Citadel

[Alhanelem]

100 is a cooler number than 99, QED

No, it's not.

Any number which has a rounded-down 50% number sucks to be a final level.

[Neisan_Quetz]

99 sucks to be a final level, the end.

[Asymptotic]

I still most definitely prefer 100 still, because it's a cooler number than 99. FFXI level caps have always been divisible by 5, and I'd prefer it to stay that way.

[Bulrogg]

100 <Yes, please.>

[Raxiaz]

I can't believe Camate really asked if people wanted 99 or 100. Of course people are going to want 100, it's a bigger number than 99. There is no logic in choosing 100 over 99 other than "it's better than 99." We can try to take logic and argue that 99 is a more suitable level for the cap, but is it really going to convince SE to stick with 99 when you've got a plethora of "100 <Yes, please.>" comments that mention nothing in support of their decision for why they came to it!? No! It's just mindless posting desiring something more than we should get...

I want level cap 99, I don't want to see level 100 in this game, it's not worth it and really, what's 1 more level? SE just stick with the PS2 limitations on this one, PLEASE...

[Didgist]

Cap was 50 for two years and then 75 for five? I can still remember conversations over the years about how they would never raise the cap beyond 75. There were even people who were offended by the idea, saying it would destroy the balance of the game and the challenges in current and future content.

Would it really be that far off for the level cap to be 200 in five years? I'm sure some people would doubt it still being active at that point. I'm also sure there would be some extremely broken 200/100 combination but i'm not up for the math on that at the moment. We've been playing for nearly half a decade assuming there would be no way to balance even level 80 (NIN/RDM > Vana'diel) and they have balanced game play enough so that it works.

People don't kite solo or use NIN/DRK- RDM/NIN combinations to tank anymore, and those were fairly big parts of endgame play at 75 cap. With the recent adjustments that have removed highly used strategies there is no reason to assume that the cap couldn't eventually be 100/100 200/100 or some other seemingly ridiculous number. It's all in how long this game stays active.

It's like Camate said, one 100 would become two 100s which would become five 100s and so on.

Ah, yes. I vote for 100. Whats the best horrible monster you can think of at 100/50?

[Amador]

Clarity would be nice regarding this. Unless the Dev team has something planned for 99+ and endgame players as far as leveling/meriting goes and how that will be reflected as an accomplishment.

However, right now we're being given an apology, with no reason or any backing to why it's an apology.

It really does sound like, "Hey uh, sorry. It was already decided before we even brought the question to you. I just can't find the right words to say I screwed up in even making the post/comment to begin with.

Clarity would be very welcome, and necessary at this point. It very bluntly, sucks that it's just Case Closed and the only response is: Sorry for miscommunication, JP players talk about Level 100, and ... I just can't even finish that sentence Camante, it's very confusing what you were even trying to state.

[Alhanelem]

The ONLY good thing about level 99 is no more Level 5 Petrify.

[Cesil]

I too wish to see these so called polls >.> Without any data to back it up it seems kind of pointless...

[Boofaceing]

They chose 99, but 99 is the best. Every old school grind game that went mainstream had a cap of 99. 99 was that number. There was no 100. You couldn't exceed 99. I dont know, I always thought it was trippy and they should keep to standards. They probably can only do 99 and thought everyone would think like me so it was pre-determined no matter what anyone said and the Japanese forums are probably saying the same things perhaps, who knows. Maybe they even voted on 100 but their saying that the english forums wanted 99. Isn't that a trip?