[dev1072]Player Opinion on abolishing of Physical levels

[Solfleur]

I just think it sucks that I have worked all these months making myself extremely well-rounded--have leveled every job to at least 25, thereby earning high physical level though my highest ranked job is less than 40.

Now all that work will be null and void.

ALL those hours of actual, non-bot-assisted, grinding will be rendered absolutely meaningless, as all the points I've earned are cut, neutered in the worst meaning of the word, leaving me reduced to the rank, I'm sorry..."level" of each job I play.

First my CON was nerfed and I was given a choice between going healer or changing to another job. I changed jobs and began again with minimal fuss after the first shock of the situation.

Of course in another brilliant change mats I had painstakingly gathered were made worthless with ZERO compensation, but that was minor. It's just gil. I still had my skills and I like...... never mind. I won't say what I like. That will be the next thing taken away.

And now this. Months of play, of doing what the game was ORIGINALLY DESIGNED for...making myself a jack of all trades and making that work to my advantage rather than focusing on just one thing. That WAS the kind of player the game ORIGINALLY rewarded, but now it's just become the same old, same old, SAME OLD THING. Had I known that I'd have just stuck with FFXI and saved myself the heart ache. I put years of work into that game, but was lured by the promise of something new and special here, and all these giant leaps BACKWARD from a beautifully original idea are just heart breaking.

My loyalty is being sorely, sorely tested. I begin to understand why bots are the norm in this game rather than the exception. I don't even bother to report them any longer. My server crawls with them, and I totally and completely understand why. What possible reason exists to be honorable (other than one's own personal code of ethics) when we are jerked around by the developers in this way?

I have never in my life (and I am a very adult player) cheated in any game, but even *I* can understand how one could be tempted with all the nonsense that has gone on in this one. We barely find our balance after one fall before another foot sweep comes along.. It's like the developers are taking some sadistic delight in seeing how much punishment we will masochistically take before they deliver the final coup de grace and inform us they have decided not to go forward with the game at all.

Maybe that would be a relief.