How would you feel about end-game gear only being useful for 3 months?

[MeowMeow]

Not happening, they already told us level cap is increasing every 1-2 years. They may be talking about level caps for raids but since drops from the a L25 dungeon don't matter by the time you are L40, it just doesn't matter as endgame progression goes.

Because we all know what the Devs say will happen always happens. Look at all the ships players own in the game already. And their buildings.. Oh and player-ran companies... Weren't those supposed to be out in January, February at the latest? But lets not forget all the other things that they said would be released that never happened. Just because Yoshi said he'd LIKE the level cap to be raised every 2 years (yes he said 2, not 1 to 2) does not mean it WILL be.

Having a dungeon for R25 players that gives R30 gear while still having a R45 dungeon that gives R50 gear is 100% irrelevant to what we are talking about, anyways. There should be content for all levels. What Yoshi is talking about doing is making a new R50 raid every 3 months that will make all your current gear for your R50 obsolete. R50 gear does not make R30 gear obsolete to a R30, since they can't even equip Raid-dropped R50 equipment. Two entirely different concepts.

They aren't raising the level cap every 3 months, theyre just making it to where any gear you got 3 months ago will be useless when you go up against somebody with the newest gear. (Probably most noticeable for tanks.)

[Ilean]

Because we all know what the Devs say will happen always happens. Look at all the ships players own in the game already. And their buildings.. Oh and player-ran companies... Weren't those supposed to be out in January, February at the latest? But lets not forget all the other things that they said would be released that never happened. Just because Yoshi said he'd LIKE the level cap to be raised every 2 years (yes he said 2, not 1 to 2) does not mean it WILL be.

Having a dungeon for R25 players that gives R30 gear while still having a R45 dungeon that gives R50 gear is 100% irrelevant to what we are talking about, anyways. There should be content for all levels. What Yoshi is talking about doing is making a new R50 raid every 3 months that will make all your current gear for your R50 obsolete. R50 gear does not make R30 gear obsolete to a R30, since they can't even equip Raid-dropped R50 equipment. Two entirely different concepts.

They aren't raising the level cap every 3 months, theyre just making it to where any gear you got 3 months ago will be useless when you go up against somebody with the newest gear. (Probably most noticeable for tanks.)

L30 gear only matters a few hours of playtime, in a couple of days you can be L35 and that shiny raid gear is obsolete and pointless. The only gear that truly matters is gear for L50s, because once you are L50 you can't level up anymore, all your character growth will come from gear.

Also they hardly are replacing every single slot for every class every 3 months.

[Wolfie]

I wouldn't like it... Mainly because if gear gets substantially better every 3 months to the point where you're a lot stronger with the latest set, then it'd only take maybe a year before anyone could solo the previous content because they'd have 4 tiers higher in gear, making them super buff. It would suck... I want old content to remain equally challenging even a year down the road.

Why does it matter if people solo content that's no longer relevant?

And didn't people do that in FFXI anyway?

[Kiote]

Because we all know what the Devs say will happen always happens. Look at all the ships players own in the game already. And their buildings.. Oh and player-ran companies... Weren't those supposed to be out in January, February at the latest? But lets not forget all the other things that they said would be released that never happened. Just because Yoshi said he'd LIKE the level cap to be raised every 2 years (yes he said 2, not 1 to 2) does not mean it WILL be.

Having a dungeon for R25 players that gives R30 gear while still having a R45 dungeon that gives R50 gear is 100% irrelevant to what we are talking about, anyways. There should be content for all levels. What Yoshi is talking about doing is making a new R50 raid every 3 months that will make all your current gear for your R50 obsolete. R50 gear does not make R30 gear obsolete to a R30, since they can't even equip Raid-dropped R50 equipment. Two entirely different concepts.

They aren't raising the level cap every 3 months, theyre just making it to where any gear you got 3 months ago will be useless when you go up against somebody with the newest gear. (Probably most noticeable for tanks.)

What is with you people and making things up..

At no point in time did Yoshida say he only planned to add rank 50 content every three months. He said he planned to release new challenging content. Yes he will probablly release new rank 50 content but that does not mean it will only be rank 50.

A Mod needs to come shut this trash thread down just like the last one. I'm sick of you ignorant fear mongerers trying to scare people over to your side. Maybe you should learn to read what the devs post and not skim through it.

[Galliano]

I would like to first see a level cap increase and then see some much harder to obtain gear being released, something similar to sky or dynamis in XI where you would need a large amount of players and not just a regular party. I would also like to see something where you had to collect different hard to obtain items over time to then have them made into a super rare item.

[ZachCero]

So who do I pay to play a MMO that requires skill and teamwork? Where my hard work isn't invalidated by John Doe who started the game 2 days ago but he "Payed" for the items as well so the game just hands them to him.

Who do I pay to get a game that revolves around what I feel is fun and not what another person thinks is fun. I don't think giving everyone easilly obtainable awesome gear is fun, I think thats lame.

Like I said regardless of skill level, everyone should be able to obtain an item that he/she wants. 3 months is a reasonable amount of time for an experience/skilled/1337 ls's members to show off that gear they worked hard to obtain, but then again someone who is a doctor and dont have much time to play still has to pay for the game regardless of how much time he/she has.
I personally think this trade off is wonderful. It let's everyone regardless of rank,skill, or how much they play, to eventually receive an item before they decide to /slit-wrists and off themselves due to a virtual item.

[Visch]

Like I said regardless of skill level, everyone should be able to obtain an item that he/she wants.

So what is the point in playing the game? Why not just move to China?

[Azurymber]

What is with you people and making things up..

At no point in time did Yoshida say he only planned to add rank 50 content every three months. He said he planned to release new challenging content. Yes he will probablly release new rank 50 content but that does not mean it will only be rank 50.

A Mod needs to come shut this trash thread down just like the last one. I'm sick of you ignorant fear mongerers trying to scare people over to your side. Maybe you should learn to read what the devs post and not skim through it.

maybe you should read the topic that says in giant sized text that the question is theoretical and that people are supposed to just post an opinion and not debate..... but then you couldn't start drama or get the thread you disagree with shut down could you.

[Seikninkuru]

So what is the point in playing the game? Why not just move to China?

I've seen some pretty retarded replies, this one may take the cake though! GZ!

[Wolfie]

I've seen some pretty retarded replies, this one may take the cake though! GZ!

They're pretty common from Visch. Better wear a helmet when you read his posts.