Quote Originally Posted by ckc22 View Post
I don't think you should design your game around people who are clearly not real fans and abandon it at every opportunity. For every person who would gear their one job and quit (most likely while ignoring other content) there's another person that would play more jobs, do more stuff, play other content, etc.

If you removed the cap you could make it much more grindy, double all the costs, halve all the earnings. Hell even implementing a cap/job would be nice.

The whole weekly cap thing just feels exploitative.
MMO's are grindy, time consuming, you can't have everything demanded and accessable instantly or no one would sub, the game would fail and go F2P then high end gear would go behind massive paywalls, Thats even worse. But it sounds more like what you want.

While I agree that the tomestone cap should be increased to 500 or 600, you can't go faster than that. It needs to take a good 2 months+ to gear 1 job otherwise people will get bored who play 1 Job (Like Myself) and stop subbing. And the vast majority of MMO players only play 1 class while they juggle OTHER games. If you have the time and devotion to play multiple jobs all the power to you go nuts but most people don't. I don't even like crafting. I have been playing this game since 2.0 launched and am still going and happy. SE is designing this game RIGHT in terms of keeping it ALIVE and viable to have a sub.

This game makes money, some people have gripes about it, but in the grand scheme unless subs start dropping by hundreds of thousands over a quarter this game wont change because people are playing. Where this game succeeds dozens of others which BIGGER BUDGETS have failed on a massive scale which tells everyone in the industry that they are doing something RIGHT.

There are things I don't like about XIV but I don't unsub from it. I never gave Zenimax a dime after the free month of ESO for that trainwreck excuse of a game because they didn't care about the players. It has been so evident that YoshiP listens to the fans of XIV and makes changes and if you disagree, You and I are playing totally different games and you'll just never be happy with this genre.