[DEV] Time sinks and satisfaction, a plea from one of your hardcore fans

[MeowyWowie]

Really, there's one main argument with this post that jumps to mind: level cap increases.

One of the biggest things that players complain about with new expansions is regarding increases to the level cap, and that the gear they spent ages working to get is now no longer useful. Pack it away, vendor it, 'maybe' sell it, if you're very lucky and that's even possible. And the more excited and accomplished you felt to finally receive that awesome item, the more put out you'll feel when you essentially get told it's now useless, go do it again.

As of now, from all we've heard, SE fully intends to raise the level cap. That there's no difficult content or epic gear at the moment is neither a bad thing, nor, likely, entirely unintentional. XIV isn't currently designed for endgame, because endgame doesn't exist yet.

'Everything' that exists in Eorzea right now is leveling fodder.

Now, feel free to push some ideas regarding more difficult/epic aspects of the game, just in case the Devs haven't solidified plans down the road and are still looking to see how players feel about such things. Feedback is always good. Just make it about the future, not about the now, because we don't really want it now when for all we know they could jump the level cap to 70 by Fall.

While I do agree with your comment it still doesn't make my request premature by any means. I'm not asking for endgame. I know the cap will be raised, I'm fairly sure everyone knows this already. But, they can still release good items that last a very long time, even if they released them now. They did it in XI, so why couldn't they do it here? The 2 most common examples from XI would be Leaping/Bounding boots and Emperor/Empress hairpin. Both took time to obtain, and they lasted you a very, very long time.

Also, with XI, SE was very good at releasing new content and items without completely overshadowing what already existed. Many of the items in game lasted for YEARS, and they pumped content out rather quickly. There's no reason they couldn't do it here.

Edit: Spelling