Punishment or Advantage?

[Waldrich]

I've started the game 5 months ago, I used feel punished for starting "late" because the lack of Traverser Stone and the lack of the Voidstones aswell.

I've spent 5mil gil in a day doing VWNM... w/o any reward.

"Thanks Square Enix for the 90 Voidstone/Traverser Stone per month." /thanksforpunishme.

idk which advantage I can take of starting "late" (talking about all other aspects of the game)

Anyway, I'll be always talking/arguing about the need of more players.

This kind of stuff discourages new players to start the game.

I'm not talking that abyssea is hard or something or you can't farm time, some people join the game to try make new friends, not everyone have friends to farm time for them, or like to join linkshells for the lack of stones.

[detlef]

Someone posted a topic about giving newbies extra traverser stones when they first Abyssea. Sorry to inform you, but the general masses hated that suggestion. They don't want you to be able to fully enjoy Abyssea when you start, but instead do quests and things while you patiently wait for your stones to accumulate. I don't understand the sentiment myself, and I hope SE does implement something to help you out.

Post is here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...-with-at-least.

[lowkey]

No kidding! It's not just SE doing this crap either. For instance recently I tried to get tickets to the comedy club in my town, at the last minute, so I could take my dad for his birthday. I wanted stage-side tickets, but they told me that they'd already sold out on purpose just to punish me for not reserving them sooner, and that I was actually lucky to get any seats at all. Well, they didn't say it like that exactly, but it was implied in the guy's tone.

[Plasticleg]

or we could play in a more intelligent and efficient manner and build our time beyond 120 minutes with each visit, you know, so we could build stones while still enjoying an old event.

and vw, you know allied notes, conquest points, and imperial standing trades for voiddust, which act as voidstones.

[Reiterpallasch]

I've spent 5mil gil in a day doing VWNM... w/o any reward.

At the cost of no more than 25k per voiddust, you mean to tell us you did VW over 200 times in a day? Man, that's one every 7 minutes if you played for 24 hours straight!

[detlef]

I think he's saying he bought his cells with gil as well, which you might have to do if you had no cruor saved up (at least to start).

Okay no that still doesn't math out even if you bought both cobalt and rubicund for 100k a stack.

[ManaKing]

It sure is horrible that you can get to level 75 in less than 3 months......

[Phogg]

Really? This is what we are complaining about now?

[Alpheus]

I would say its an acceptable advantage for longer term players I mean that's like me saying my lsmates have an unfair advantage at having a lil stockpile of Ampoules cuz they've been playing since forever whereas I have only been playing for two years and only recently started doing Einherjar. It comes with the territory is my opinion on the matter.

[Demon6324236]

If you start with a disadvantage to everyone else it can deter new players because they are on uneven ground, and not easily catch up to the rest of players, leaving them felling left behind, and out of place.