STOP with the login campaigns already! Please STOP!

[Stompa]

I really love my Timepiece and my Cardian statue, which I got from login campaign. Quite honestly they are two of my favourite things in FFXI. I sometimes stand around waiting for the Timepiece to play its little tune and do the swirly colours thing lol.

Also I like obtaining crests and seals for BC's, from log-in. that is a blessing and means I don't have to get scammed so often by that merciless thieving brigand in Port Jeuno with his outrageous 3-for-1 deal.

Also I liked login campaign because it enabled me to obtain hundreds of shanks and totally waste them on a load of pixie earrings and a headache.

That said I did raise an eyebrow when I saw the testamonies today. I doubt there is anyone level 70 who can't get a high level friend to kill a few mobs for a test, or just shout for help. When I see shouts like that I jump on it and help the person out, because helping new players is what FFXI was always about imho. So maybe the login tests bracket was a bit of a miss.

[Dragomair]

Testimony farming doesn't take that long and you don't really get useful items out of it. You either break the level 70 cap for your first job or get 50% off on job related monster instincts. I guess you get Maat's Cap too if you beat him on the 15 original jobs but testimony farming isn't the time consuming part of that process.. levelling is.

15 testimonies wouldn't take hours?
What level of TH do you have? O.o

[Trangnai]

15 testimonies wouldn't take hours?
What level of TH do you have? O.o

Considering the now mid level mobs are no longer really a challenge and its rather easy to solo some of the NMs that grant a 100% drop of Testimonies. It would not be difficult to farm them. Most of the time leveling in mid 60s to early 70s areas I get alot of useless tests which end up going to the ground.

[Raydeus]

The Login campaigns are probably the best thing that has happened to the game because they reward you for keeping your sub active and playing daily.

And let me put it this way, those campaigns have kept me login into the game on a daily basis for months now. If they go away so will I.



PS > Not to mention they are completely optional, so if you don't want to use login points you don't have to.

PPS > The one thing that I find to be asinine about this thread is that the complain is about the testimonies, which would require you to log in daily for more than 2 weeks to acquire with login points. Specially considering you could obtain them in a couple of days just farming them the old fashioned way.

The complain should be that those testimonies are taking the space of way more useful items we could obtain instead, not about login campaigns.

[elqplau]

15 testimonies wouldn't take hours?
What level of TH do you have? O.o

Lol if i farm a test for someone i dont use thf i just go where they drp....drg tests dont drop in cape terror whm/bst/war do lol...location,location,location

[Elemmire]

The ultimate goal of the game is to farm for content that's almost 10 years old now?

[Joslyn]

A lot of good points are made. Yes the login is getting a bit repetitive, and they keep giving out the same stuff only changing the Trusts when a new one is introduced, but if ppl keep logging in then they will keep doing them. The only reason I keep doing them is for seals and new trusts and if they give something you can't get anyway else.

As for the OP saying for them to give us a Cats Eye..... If they did that they would make me a happy player

[Zarchery]

15 testimonies wouldn't take hours?
What level of TH do you have? O.o

I'm constantly throwing testimonies away from mobs that aggro me on the way to do other stuff, on jobs with no treasure hunter.

[Behemothx]

Maybe I should've been more clear... I don't have anything against rewarding players who login everyday, of course not. What I'm against is the fact that they are giving away stuff that you should be working on yourself, or playing with others. I know the stuff is 12 years old and I don't need it myself, it just worries me that they keep giving too much stuff and there are no goals left other than the random sidegrade here and there...

[Malithar]

There's a big difference between relevant current goals, and old school road blocks though. For the most part, the campaign has done a fine job of separating these out.

Defending Ring is suddenly a somewhat common (RNG willing, at least) item to see around now. That's not really a bad thing. Beyond that, which IMO is the most significant item offered by the campaign since it was added, we've had Limbus items, low tier Skirmish pieces and stones, low tier Airlixirs, Testimonies, LB10 items, [S] area BC items, the Goblin 880 stew for Gobbie Bag upgrades, and prolly more things that I'm forgetting. Is any of that really taking away from content that we should be doing anyways?

The most significant additions from the campaign would be Delve beads (though with the increase in drop rate, this isn't that big of a deal anymore), seals, including SKCs, and Shanks. Everything else is either road block clearing items, minor advances in current content that don't threaten the top tier of of said content (Airlixir +1s and Skirmish stones +1), or purely cosmetic items.

Is there really something wrong with allowing people to save a few Tales by +1ing their original AF? How about allowing someone to not spend a few hundred k for an upgrade tier of a Gobbie Bag? Skipping Testimonies? Easing ZNM pop item sets needed? I don't see anything wrong with it personally. Now if you could, as you say, get a Cat's Eye, or get lots of Airlixir +2s, or Delve boss drops, or RME currencies, etc, then yeah, I'd see a problem. But as it is, it's a time saver when it's relevant for someone. Outside of that relevancy, it's a cosmetic/Trust item boutique with the ability to dump all your points into Shanks or seals.