Is there a future?

[Luvbunny]

I'm actually a bit embarrassed that I completely forgot about WoE. Although that fact alone hints at its significance. WoE did indeed have some situational nice gear, and especially expensive gear, but due to its setup and its lotting rules it was never popular to be done as a LS event, but instead it became a pickup event (sometimes involuntarily).

There is nothing wrong with large scale events where everyone can participate regardless of their skill levels, knowledge or gears. It's democratic, in a non judgmental way. Everyone can have the same level of fun without too many invisible walls and depending on LS for helps on every single thing. I like WoE, it's fun grinding diversion, it's somewhat rewarding, and it requires not much of effort. Well hopefully they will revamp Campaign and Walk of Echoes. Looking at the way SE works, all they do is giving you half baked new stuffs, do minimal tweak, then move on to the next thing, instead of actually do a full on revision. Whoever designed the battle system and reward system of Abyssea need to get back working on FFXI. I know you don't like Abyssea, but for some reason it is one of those add ons that you just cannot get rid of, no matter how many times you wish that people just abandon the area.... there are still people camping everything over there.

[Winrie]

Simple enough question.

With this new director coming in like a storm announcing a new age to the game and yet fails as hard as the one before him, how long will this game last. I've seen countless posts about people wanting to quit or cancel for a duration in hopes things will get better.

My main point of this post is, Are you trying to make this game so unappealing to new players and current players in a hope to cut down subscriptions so you can pull the plug on it?

You claim balance must be kept but this is selective in choosing. Ex. Astral parties are considered RMT activities and where banned, but FC parties are ok to do when its the same thing but able to be done longer.

You go on about stopping RMT by changing values of items to NPC yes you don't actually go after the RMT itself to stop the damage before its done. Ex. Chocobo blinkers where cut down in value to NPC's yet trumpet rings which fishing bots farm the materials for are still being made by the 1000's.

You do realize you have to level bonecraft and fishing to even do rings right? RMT dont even bother to craft or fish anymore, you need to get with the times. While i agree blinkers was bullshit, and so are these nerfs, but the crybaby trying to dick over everything decent for gil is getting old. When rmt start lvling crafts with the GIL THEY SELL, and start fishing with THE TIME THEY SPEND CLEAVING, then complain about it. As for the dude who said rmt are inactive, you must not be playing a lot lately, they been active for years and are getting heavily active again, gils even been marked up i hear, so yes, they are around, they are active, and i myself have seen them lined up at the blinker npc on many occasions.

[JohnGotti]

Yeah the op is starting to come across as a crybaby who wants gil making to be stopped just because hes to lazy to level fishing or indeed as Winrie said fishing and bonecraft to do those rings, a very jealous horrible person who im glad to say isn't on my server.

[Demon6324236]

It might just be me but I haven't leveled fishing, not because I'm lazy, but because it just seems boring as shit, and without bots, I just cant see it being worth boring myself for. The same goes for any craft actually, my Goldsmithing has hit 48 currently I believe, and really I hate leveling it, its just me hitting the same few buttons for a few hours getting a skill up every now & then, nothing fun in the least.

[Secondplanet]

You do realize you have to level bonecraft and fishing to even do rings right? RMT dont even bother to craft or fish anymore, you need to get with the times.

I don't know whats it is like on your server but i know several more secluded spots where there is a character on /anon crafting these rings for hours and yes they did stop once choco blinkers were around but now it seems like they are pickup up pace, You do know that back long ago RMT did do crafting to increase profit margins by turning high gil items into more money with no middle man.

Yeah the op is starting to come across as a crybaby who wants gil making to be stopped just because hes to lazy to level fishing or indeed as Winrie said fishing and bonecraft to do those rings, a very jealous horrible person who im glad to say isn't on my server.

Where id i state i want gil to be hard to make or not make any at all, Just cause i don't bother with fishing doesn't mean anything, i have no issues in the game with gil and if there is that pricey piece of gear i want i can get in a week no problem. Also have you ever traveled to the far off are known as Nashmau? once you get off the boat all you see is the whole area of bluenames like ghjkl fishing nonstop, i don't think they doing it for charity.

Also JohnGotti i wish to point out the fact of how can you even talk about most things when you have just joined the game and don't know the damage RMT has done in the past? I think i'm the one who's glad i'm not on the same server with someone who thinks so little of others for an opinion.

All i was pointing out is that SE will ban/change something but not do the same for others which doesn't make sense.

[scaevola]

And thats why i see trains of characters with names like asdfg running through towns and receiving 2-3 /tells a week from them offering me gil at amazingly low prices. Yeah really sounds dead to me.

Legit players sell gil to websites which in turn market it back to players.

This has been going on a while, as even though there comes a certain point where gil flows like water, SE has done a fair to decent job of keeping that out of the reach of throwaway RMT accounts; the only other way to keep the flow of cash going without the contributions of high-level players at a low risk of being banned is account-hacking, which SE has done an AMAZING job of combatting simply by incentivizing the purchase of authenticators to the point where you really can't justify not getting one.

[Mirage]

If legit players sell gil to websites, they aren't legit players. By breaking the EULA they are illegitimate players, they just haven't been discovered by SE yet.

[Vold]

To be honest, Choco. Blinkers HAD to change; there is no bleak future except for players who can no longer manipulate a system oversight which allowed the direct "creation" of currency. And of all the things to be upset about, that? Really?

The problem wasn't the gil, it was the more or less "free" cruor being generated which then could be converted into gil. It took out the whole "stop what you're doing and farm gil to work for nice things" aspect of the game which SE has always put a high value on. Nothing more or less. We're meant to create gil by selling junk to NPCs, and whether we like it or not SE reserves the right to say, yeah that's okay to do or whoa whoa whoa we didn't intend for people to fund relics via cruor. Better to nerf the gil than the cruor.

Thing is, cruor did what SE couldn't for many years: Kill off RMT. Oh sure they still exist but really, who's still buying gil? The level 52-99 casual RDM that plays a hour a week struggling to catch up? Insignificant.

[Alerith]

I've seen at least 5 people get in trouble for using Diaga on a group of mobs held for SMN burn parties. I've NEVER seen or heard of the actual burners getting bansticked.

[Zagen]

I've seen at least 5 people get in trouble for using Diaga on a group of mobs held for SMN burn parties. I've NEVER seen or heard of the actual burners getting bansticked.

I heard rumors about getting banned for selling the items to NPCs, I didn't participate heavily in them back then but I sold drops whenever I did go and never got sent to jail, temp banned, or even a tell from a GM. Come up with your own conclusion but to me it was people who were jealous they couldn't get into astral burns making crap up.