This new feature will be great if it allows EXP reward from the MSQ again, so you can use it to also level up alternate jobs!
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New Game plus for me is being able to start at the beginning with all the stuff you unlocked available from the get go for the previous playthrough. All the skills, gear, mounts, dungeons, glamours, emotes, mount speed upgrades, etc, with all the MSQ resetting(with content unlocks already done). New game plus in an mmo? It would be cool if they did it like Dark Souls where you get stronger and stronger and every monster gets stronger and stronger with rewards increasing each playthrough.
That would probably require special new game plus servers to not break balance though lol.
So I am pretty sure it won't turn out like my wish. I guess a good reason for new game plus in an mmo if the above never happened. Is the ability to enter any content that normally had group restrictions was lifted so I could go help out a low level friend. Maybe there could be a merit point type system for doing all that stuff with other people, keeping all the lower level content more relevant.
But yeah if I still have to unlock everything then I will just roll an alt like I have been.
To make an alt on the same server (with your friends) you have to pay a higher subscription fee to allow more than one character slot. I for one also want to relive the story as MY Warrior of Light and I can't do that with an alt. Doranaux Wavemet can't be the name of two different characters. An alt would also need to level up (which mind you, is what the OP is asking for) and that means you couldn't -just- relive the story, you'd also have to do some grinding. That grinding is wasted if its on a throwaway alt you've made just for the story. Making an alt also means you don't have your gil stockpile or vanity items that you might want to take part of.
I don't see the problem with giving players the option to start over from level 1, but keep their houses (accessible again once they finish the level 10 quest) and their stuff. I like my current character, and want to replay the game using her. But I don't want to feel overpowered while I'm doing early quests. New Game+ should still feel like I'm starting a new game.
Parasite Eve comes to mind too. Near the end of the game the player could choose a name for their favorite armor and favorite gun. When the game ended the player could then select "New Game" and both the armor and gun as well as anything the player put into the police station storage carried over to the next game at the start.
I only remembered it cos it was the only way I got through the Chrysler Building >_>
I guess new game plus would be good for all the out of cutscene interactions, I always wondered what the other multi choice question responses were.
People want to redo certain quests and story lines without having to relevel. Some people don't want to waste time doing that. I have an ALT at 60 and I don't want to waste time leveling to 70 just to replay SB story line. It was a pain getting back to 60 when I wanted to redo the HW story. Now I will be able to redo any story line I want without slogging through hours of boring low level dungeons.