[FEEDBACK] UNSYNCING + DIFFICULTY SCALING

Your capslock key broken or something op?

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Originally Posted by Minerva-Redwater

I agree, Personally me and my static and many others have worked hard on clearing content and earning things such as ponies, clearing coil t1-t13 and acquiring items from these things at level 50. To see other players achieve every single thing that we did unsync'd like it's nothing is a slap to the face. Stuff like "titles" and "achievements" should only be given to people who earn them. Now you see everyone walking around with the final witness title and they didn't even experience the whole fight. huge slap to the face.......

Minerva

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Correct, you had your special snowflake status at level 50...now you have a new one for level 60. Let the others have the items (mounts and such) that came from level 50 since they will most likely be the same players that don't get the current level 60 special items for beating the hard content.

As far as titles go, there should be titles like WoW does called "Ahead of the Curve" where you obtain that achievement or title for beating current content, then it gets removed once the next tier has come out.

I don't understand why there can't be some sort of compromise. All I see right now is everyone that wants hand outs from the game. Why can't the current rewards be split into 2? The old gear/mounts for unsynced folks for who want to farm those and get glamour, and crafting items/title for people who do the game on the level it was intended for. That way it can still hold some value to still do the game synced. It also gives a chance for newer level 50s or people who took a break and resubbed a chance to do some mid game raiding without having a hard time finding others to do it with them. Quite a few people want to experience coil the way it was. Something that is old for you and me isn't old for others, it would also make it so the old content didn't die as easily. But I'm sure many of you will disagree with compromise as well because most of you seem the type to just want free hand outs in the game.

I cleared the 2.0 Extreme primals when they were still relevant, only saw one pony drop during that time but never won one. I have nothing against groups using the unsync feature to go back farm for ponies. Way I see it, makes it go quicker.

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Originally Posted by Noshpan

I cleared the 2.0 Extreme primals when they were still relevant, only saw one pony drop during that time but never won one. I have nothing against groups using the unsync feature to go back farm for ponies. Way I see it, makes it go quicker.

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Yeah and for stuff like that I could care less about people farming unsynced, seriously. Let them farm the mounts and gear glamour unsynced, But at least have some value to doing it the normal way as well is what I'm trying to get at.

I had a Ferrari. Bought it brand new, drove it everywhere. Had it for a few years, then bought a new model fresh out of the factory.

I made sure to have my old Ferrari chopped up, though, because I will NOT tolerate that some guy gets to drive around in a Ferrari he bought used several years after it was new, because that makes MY time driving in my Ferrari worth a lot less!

The problem is XIV goes forward, in XI people continued to do older content because some of that gear was still relevant. I am calling it now...we will eventually see lvl 100 in XIV, and yes the grind to that will be similar as 1-75 pre sync in XI, but it's how I see this game going, and ARR content and H content will be unsync farmed, so basically everything people are working towards beating now will be faceroll cleared next lvl cap.

On the flip side, many people are actually having FUN unsync farming this stuff, vs you know the constant complaining, rage quitting and so on that was faced pre H. At the end of the day the people who cleared this when it was tough can still smile and know they did it before anyone else, and it won't really matter a year from now or 10 years from now, it's the personal accomplishment that those groups will be rewarded with.

people people. Why are we feeding the trolls? The capital letters wasn't a clue?

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Originally Posted by OranKells

people people. Why are we feeding the trolls? The capital letters wasn't a clue?

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Coming from the other links in the thread that led me to here, no, this is not a troll, he's just like this.

its called staying in character. Ever watch the Colbert Report?

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Originally Posted by OranKells

its called staying in character. Ever watch the Colbert Report?

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Reminds me of someone else in another forum I visit that pulls a similar stunt. Has been "in character" for years and frankly it's annoying.

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/...8764844816.png

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Reminds me of someone else in another forum I visit that pulls a similar stunt. Has been "in character" for years and frankly it's annoying.

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This. But in this case I'm pretty sure he realizes exactly how obnoxious he is and does it because it gets him attention.

Its old content. Nuff said.

This is hilarious!

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Originally Posted by Minerva-Redwater

I agree, Personally me and my static and many others have worked hard on clearing content and earning things such as ponies, clearing coil t1-t13 and acquiring items from these things at level 50.

Minerva

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Excuse me but I am pretty sure you dont skip anything beside MAYBE the Add Phase on T13 if you go 8 Man unsyced. And just because "you and your static" worked soooooooooooo hard on coils you want to take the chance of new players away to get it? You know that no1 would freaking run old shit unsyched? I dont get how people in this game are so selfish just because they think they "achived" something. As if t13 was that hard to begin with lol.

Unsync is contributing to the downfall and failures of players as a whole, something that players complain constantly, aka bad / poor players not knowing their skills, jobs and the like. Of course they dont, they ran all in easy mode aka unsync ....right ?...I mean you all complain about poor players and yet you all WANT them to be bad by promoting the unsync thing as THE thing...seriously people

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Originally Posted by MeiUshu

Unsync is contributing to the downfall and failures of players as a whole, something that players complain constantly, aka bad / poor players not knowing their skills, jobs and the like. Of course they dont, they ran all in easy mode aka unsync ....right ?...I mean you all complain about poor players and yet you all WANT them to be bad by promoting the unsync thing as THE thing...seriously people

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I know, all these players I see running unsynced Vault is really ruining the game. ¬_¬

I assume you rallied against the introduction of the three new jobs with Heavensward too as the lack of classed meant that people could run lvl30 content without even knowing what their first move was.

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Originally Posted by dragonkyn20

Every day in Balmung, I've seen unsynced runs for ponies and glamour and not one single party I've been in has complained about it.

Your 'large group' is in the minority.

And besides, what does it matter to you if people cleared content unsynced? It allows players to experience the older content at a much faster pace and in turn unlock the rest of it, i.e. EX primals and Coil.

If things actually went your way, XIV would be almost impossible to play from a casual standpoint and would spell the MMO's death.

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^ This, I was able to complete T13 because of unsynced party. I was able to finish off the story. During 2.x it was all about know the fight and experience only farming party. Was there room for casual to join in, to just wanting to complete the story? Not many... I missed that chance, but Thankfully for unsynced I was able to have that experience.

Also...I don't know why people would be running around w/ the "Final Witness" title, personally I'd rather run around w/ title like "The Darkest Shadow" sounds a lot more awesome.

I'm surprised no one else has said this, but yeah, Ramroddicus is a fairly known (known as in, anytime he's seen in chat, he's just ignored, or blisted) /sh troll on Balmung. Sometimes he's funny, but mostly he's just annoying. Ignore him.

unsync is not the problem. it's a symptom. people throwing around terms like "elite" and casuals" is also a symptom of the real problem. the problem is the community that FF14 has created. why should anyone stick around to help or play with others when they can just do EG content pretty much when they want to? no need to find people to join with for a common goal when you can do the EG content on your own with random strangers largely any time you want and just quit a party if you feel they are not on your level (not talking about those that just want to faceroll a clear). some people take longer to "get it" but often do not get the chance before the party breaks. why do "old content" when you can spam EG to get pimped out so you can not play until the next patch. unsyncing content is a bandaid that may help a little to just get people through content. even with that it still has it's issues. you may have cleared a primal many times before the unsync but that does not = an instant win as there are still mechanics that will wipe a party esp when phases are being skipped.

No thanks I like what SE done here.

It is old content I am not gonna duty up for like 2-3 hours waiting for someone to get into a party and I don't use party finder.

Rather team up with friends because if I team up with strangers well usually it goes south and people begin to fight and people end up getting kicked and I rather get my item than sit there and go through the drama many many times before I least beat it once to get a lot I might not even win and deal with the whole mess again.

If SE feels the content is old and that it should be unsync I fully support their decision, however I don't agree with things on forums half the time cause well it sounds like you just try and ruin it for others.

anyways that's my take on it. I much rather get a reward then do it for nothing so no to whatever you are purposing.

Too much caps lock in original post. Did not read.

I have to admit, I'm not a fan of how unsyncing turned out and it's not because of the whole "you just don't want others to have that stuff! Why do you even care? Epeen!" statements and accusations I always see. Honestly, I just wish there was some encouragement to actually take the more challenging road. As it stands unsyc just completely undermines the other two options to the point where you might as well remove the others altogether. It's not surprising of course, not much reason to take the more difficult route when you just want to reach the end destination.

I'd be much happier if the devs had something just to make the synced and minimum ilvl options worth considering. It doesn't have to go as far as removing the unsyc rewards entirely, but maybe something like a higher drop rate on the rare drops when you go with the more difficult options of the fight.