rank up every year or so poll and opinions

[Punxsutawney]

I still can't see why people are complaining about gear becoming obsolete, there is no gear in this right now that is worthy of being called "good." Unless they increase the cap to 65 soon and add much better gear, this is a non issue

[danny52844]

I still can't see why people are complaining about gear becoming obsolete, there is no gear in this right now that is worthy of being called "good." Unless they increase the cap to 65 soon and add much better gear, this is a non issue

im not complaining about the gear now but they plan to up the level cap every1-2 years

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Were you expecting them not to increase the rank cap and make new gear sets to work towards? Do you know how a pay to play MMO model works?

[danny52844]

Were you expecting them not to increase the rank cap and make new gear sets to work towards? Do you know how a pay to play MMO model works?

cause this game should totally be like all the other games most ff fans dont wanna play (expecaily ex ff11 players)
just my opinion though thats y i put a like and hate button

[RabidSquirrel]

Were you expecting them not to increase the rank cap and make new gear sets to work towards? Do you know how a pay to play MMO model works?

Very much truth. And all this talk about "horizontal" growth is a bit overrated. There will always be only so many viable horizontal options. More of those options end up being pointless to work for. People want to put effort into equipment which has a noticeable impact on their strength. Gear should become obsolete to keep us occupied.

[Wolfie]

First option, but I don't want SE to be as... aggressive or extreme as WOW.

Do it 5 levels at a time, and make sure that the previous tier/content's gear is still viable as low end or entry level end game gear for the new content.

[Leknaat]

As long as SE says from the outset: We plan to raise the levels slowly every year or so, players can play/plan accordingly planned obsolescence is a wonderful thing. You know your gear will become obsolete, you know not to get TOO attached to it and you know that after a certain point, it's not worth stressing over that you don't have it.

The FFXI team swore themselves black and blue that the level cap would not be raised. So people might have spent 5-6 years trying to obtain a particular piece/set of gear. If SE had been slowly adding a new level cap every year until now, things would have progressed much smoother in that game. People spent years trying to get gear that they thought wouldn't get obsolete (maybe the occasional side-grade) only to get blindsided by the fact their gear was now suddenly 90% obsolete by a gear set that someone could by for like 100k.

[Nuru]

When your gear becomes obsolete there opens up a new goal to work towards. Otherwise, why play an MMORPG if there are no goals?

You dont get why most people would favor a cap increase, well, it only creates more goals. Whether it be a cap increase every year, or every other year. The fact of the matter is that if you got the best gear during that year, you are awesome until cap raise, and the goal is to be awesome again. lol

[Eruantien]

a couple of people seem to have said, ffxi players wouldn't like this. But thats exactly what xi did, no?

It was always expected caps were going to increase over time, but now we have an ish timeline. The question is what is the rank cap going to finish at.

[ClashBlades]

To be honest, I don't really care about this issue that much. It's way too early for it to even matter.

Agreed and +1'd