Rollbacks Needed?

Sorry if its already been mentioned before, i searched the last few pages in the forums but didnt find anything on this subject.

My question is does anybody here feel that rollbacks (with ranks and money) are needed?

I ask because it just seems as though so many people have ranked a bunch of jobs to r50 and have earned so much money in so little time (not even a year). This is an advantage that many players have earned with their time, but i cant help but feel that once a new system is implemented that maybe this is something that needs to be looked at. Then again, maybe some people can suggest reasons as to why its not needed.

Thanks to everyone for replying :D

No, for one this is preposterous idea. Simply joining your abstraction, it is not a real issue because so few people are still playing the game. When the population increases those who have earned a lot of money should keep it because they played for a long time. They will be dwarfed by the newcomers.

rollbacks aren't needed because if characters get rolled back and people lose all of the hard work that they put in for 9ish months, they will quit. A lot of people have worked very hard to get what they have (Some more than others). If they have that work stripped from them, it will cause a hell of a lot of problems for SE.

The ranks and the gil I have at the moment have been worked for- I have put my time and effort into the game for these so if they roll them back and take them away, I will rip their arms off and beat them with the soggy end....

So no.. I don't agree with rollback. It may be an "advantage" over others that may join later, but we deserve it for the time that we put in and sticking with the game until it is fixed- it is not our fault, so why should we be punished?

When I first started playing FFXI 5 years ago it was on the 360 Beta (*awaits the 360 flaming lol*) and I did not think at the time "Hey! All these PS2 and PC players have a few years advantage over me- why don't SE rollback their levels and gil to make it even, it's not fair".

Congrats on making the dumbest topic to date on these forums! You should be proud. That is by no means an easy feat.

ITT: someone wanting to punish people who play too much

It was previously confirmed that character rollbacks are off the table and they will deal with the current gil in other ways.

If the new players don't outnumber the current players, then they didn't really fix it.

This would be a good way for a company to never sell another copy of a game again, ever.

Such a rollback would be near to the same extent as character wipes. And it was said that they'd never do character wipes.

Besides, I find it pointless that they would do a rollback/wipe after some 3 or so events that gave us gear.

lol, wtf did i start.

Im not here saying that we should get roll backs. I just feel that the whole freakin game is almost being rebuilt from scratch. The combat system is going to change and the crafting needs changing (IMO). I just dont know if the new developers have in mind what the old developers did. Maybe he wants to get rid of certain jobs or skills, maybe he wants to make the ranking system different. A thought is that if this game is going to change so much, maybe some people thought that characters would be affected too. This is not something i want..its actually something i fear and i just wanted your opinion on it