Quote Originally Posted by Lexia View Post
What are you talking about? Only minority of players would grind everything out? The people that wouldn't grind everything out would be the minority not the other way around. I don't know about your server but least on Balmung there be ton of people that would just grind all day long.
Only a minority of players would grind everything out within a short timeframe. Example: Relic. The average player working on relic will get a relic just before 3.2 comes out. This is perfect pacing - players aren't getting overwhelmed, they're not falling behind. From a financial standpoint, they're staying subbed. But some people had the new relics in just a few days. And from a financial standpoint, this is okay too, as those players are also staying subbed because there are other things that they want to do.

I'm not going to go back and forth a ton more about this as my time is actually important to me but I would invite you to please read the fixes listed in my original post. Fixes like, for example, having more fun stuff to do while waiting for queues or PF to fill. If you can honestly say these fixes are unreasonable, I don't know how to respond to you.

Nothing in my original post mentioned removing gates. In fact, I stated that my problem is that gates have gotten way out of hand to include much more than tomes. Just about every game system added since the start of ARR has had a time gate attached. You have to wait hours to dye or breed your chocobo, for example. You cannot challenge Triple Triad NPCs whenever you want. Scrips are on 2 different timers - the weekly cap of how much you can get AND having to wait for nodes to spawn.

I feel like I'm in a straight jacket juggling all these timers. Suppose I want to do everything in the game, what would my play routine look like?

- if it's 15 min past or before the real life hour, go to Gold Saucer for GATES
- if it's 8:00ish Eorzea time, go start the red/blue scrip node train that ends at roughly 2pm
- queue for something during or in between that
- try to fit in triple triad challenges in sometime in between that (oh wait, my Idle Imperial timer conflicts with my node timer - I can't do both until/unless I cap scrips)

I mean I could go on but I won't. This thread is not about removing content lockouts (even though I would personally jump for joy), it's about reconsidering time restrictions to every new thing that was added. They even added a cooldown timer to Diadem because Yoshi wanted to "give people a break." It wasn't even to restrict loot access but to prevent people from burning out on the content. Well, if I want to run content until my eyes bleed, that's my prerogative. Yoshi P isn't my daddy and it's time for him to quit acting like it.