The Weekly Cap - Am I completely disillusioned?

[SakuraMidori]

FC member: "The cap is good because otherwise people would grind 24 hours a day and be bored in a few days, it gives people something to do"

Hold on,
1) People do not grind this game 24 hours a day.

Act yes ppl will do runs 24hours there are some that try to pull 70 hours trust me if ppl can just do runs all day they will. And then you will get to many topics of players crying they need more to do and then they just un sub. So i say let the ppl quit can't deal with the cap? i mean 450 a week is fine

[Lemuria]

Act yes ppl will do runs 24hours there are some that try to pull 70 hours trust me if ppl can just do runs all day they will. And then you will get to many topics of players crying they need more to do and then they just un sub. So i say let the ppl quit can't deal with the cap? i mean 450 a week is fine

Those people are few and far between. 450 tomes is a rather arbitrary number as well. It's less than it takes to get a single piece of main equipment, so you'll need 2 weeks minimum for anything besides accessories. The odd part is that in 2 weeks you can earn 900 tomes which is enough to get the stronger pieces first (body, legs), so the actual sum earned is a bit on the silly side. If they had rounded it up to 500, it would cover the costs of most pieces, while still requiring 2 weeks of grind to obtain the more powerful body and leg pieces.

Honestly though, the cap is a very artificial way to prevent people from upgrading. There are far better systems they could have employed, not least of all having equipment you slowly upgrade over time as was done in FFXI, or even customized equipment which hasn't even been considered. They need to break the mold, or this treadmill endgame will be recycled forever.