Quote Originally Posted by Kristal View Post
If AAF catches that sentiment, but with lvl 99 attributes, so much the better!
That's backwards thinking. There is no reason that AAF should not continue the "plot" of the job....
If anything, most of the AF1 questlines just kinda ended... without any real resolution.
To which an AF4/AAF quest chain could finish.

The main thing is: RUN and GEO are playable outside of Adoulin and at levels below 99.
The Devs should want NEW players... and new players can't afford to gear themselves steadily from 1-98.
Generally, (and this is more of a modern play) a new person will get help from an older player (if they can) and will often just go: w/e 1-20, RSE 20-30 (because it's free, cheap, and easy to get and decent enough), AF1 50-60... sometimes they might get relic gear (that's assuming they have REALLY nice friends who are willing to take them into dynamis for a bit of farming) and then they'll get to Abyssea and get to 99 and the empy set.

Why this is a bad idea is because this specifically targets and separates old from new players, dividing the community...
and worse... it tells new players to be "abysseanoobs" and burn their job to 99 before they can actually play the game.

Now of course, you're not gonna be going and doing the big fancy stuff before 99.... but YOU EXIST BEFORE 99.
The jobs are HELLA easy to unlock... why then should they demand 99 before AF1?


And just because on YOUR server there isn't any pre-99 content anymore... doesn't mean that Dynamis, Limbus, Salvage, and all the rest that I'm forgetting.... stopped existing and no one on any server ever does that.
There are also new players that might want to try that....
We don't want a game filled with lv99s that don't know what they are doing.
And this move advocates to "screw lv1-98 abyburn!"...

Which some people do... And that's fine.
But there are just as many (if not vastly MORE) who will join xp parties in Crawler's Nest till 60 and Bostaunieux Oubliette until 75 before going to Abyssea....
They might do it for skill levels... they might do it to learn their job better.... whatever the reason for it....

Just because YOU don't do the pre-99 stuff or your server isn't doing it... is not a valid argument for ignoring everyone else who does.

Furthermore: Do people still buy <lv99 equipment on the AH? They do on Odin. Quite a lot in fact. Because not everyone is 99. And we want more people playing... all MMOs do... and having this with no intention of adding a real AF1 at a future date... is like giving the middle finger to new-comers.