Change to Favor nodes is coming!

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...27#post3221527

From reddit,

"An adjustment to the the time duration and the pop chance of Favor nodes is on its way, it's to make it less frustration and more enjoyable."

Yeah I hope this is true. Wish I knew Japanese so I can confirm it myself. If so this a step forward that was really needed.

Time to save ALL my Gathering Tokens... I just hope this comes soon :)

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Originally Posted by Ranzan

Yeah I hope this is true. Wish I knew Japanese so I can confirm it myself. If so this a step forward that was really needed.

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I can understand Japanese better than I can read or write @.@ so rough translation:

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Good evening.

Thank you for the great amount of feedback.

Adjustments to the duration and the appearance rate of hidden items of favors are scheduled so everyone will have more time to play.

For now, please wait a little longer.

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Edit: Here's the English version of the announcement.

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Originally Posted by Grekumah

Greetings,

We are planning to make adjustments to the duration of the Favors purchased with red scrips and the frequency of the Concealed Nodes spawn so that it'll become easier for everyone to participate. Once we have more information, we'll make further announcements. We appreciate your patience while we work on these adjustments.

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Guess I mistranslated the last part regarding play time/participation. Oops. :x

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Originally Posted by Lyrinn

I can understand Japanese better than I can read or write @.@ so rough translation:

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The replies in that thread. So true.

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Originally Posted by Amyota

逆に、こうやって早期に緩和がはいるってことは運営がしっかりと計算した調整が出来てなかったって言うことでも有る事を理解して欲しいですね。

ユーザーはテスターではないんですから、リリースするときには最低でもしっかりと遊べる範囲で調整をお願いしたいものです。

全てを完璧に調整しろとはいいませんが、遊びたいと思う仕様にはしていただきたいです。

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+1~

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Originally Posted by Lyrinn

I can understand Japanese better than I can read or write @.@ so rough translation:

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Tyvm for your Japanese skills! :) Today so far has been great. Let's hope it's will be in this Tuesday maintenance.

Favor time will be reduced to 5 minutes. Spawn rate will be doubled. Please look forward to it.

they better do this soon. its kinda pointless gathering now with those changes coming, but i wanna start crafting more 2 star stuff already...

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Originally Posted by Grotesque

Favor time will be reduced to 5 minutes. Spawn rate will be doubled. Please look forward to it.

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PLEASE tell me that's not the actual fix. Please say you made that up. Please? I don't want my (already pathetic) returns cut by 1/3...

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Originally Posted by Joronas

PLEASE tell me that's not the actual fix. Please say you made that up. Please? I don't want my (already pathetic) returns cut by 1/3...

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he made that up. id not be surprised if they did that though XD

Well, it would seem they noticed a steep decline in autorenewal subscriptions after the red scrips system was released and that doesn't surprise me at all. I'm still collecting my weekly red scrips hoping they fix it soon, but no way in hell I'm doing that favor stuff. I'm actually shocked they released this kind of system, it feels more like a job than a game. After spending several hours gathering for red scrips and more hours gathering favor nodes, you must be able to obtain something that is worth the effort. There should be a min/max amount of rare items you should be able to gather from favor nodes, like 3 to 5 hidden nodes can spawn randomly, my opinion.

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Originally Posted by Ranzan

Tyvm for your Japanese skills! :) Today so far has been great. Let's hope it's will be in this Tuesday maintenance.

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Probably tripled so it's proportional. I'd be fine with that.

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Originally Posted by Thrustie

Probably tripled so it's proportional. I'd be fine with that.

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That'd still mean a boring ass 4 hours of favor farming each week :P. Ugh, let's hope they can be even more kind than that :). I'd rather they make them into unspoiled nodes.

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Originally Posted by tomtensfarfar

That'd still mean a boring ass 4 hours of favor farming each week :P. Ugh, let's hope they can be even more kind than that :). I'd rather they make them into unspoiled nodes.

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Yeah it's more manageable at least. 30 minutes a day for those who want to go that route. Not nearly as obnoxious.

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Originally Posted by Thrustie

Yeah it's more manageable at least. 30 minutes a day for those who want to go that route. Not nearly as obnoxious.

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True, I'll take it. :)