PlayStation.Blog Exclusive Q&A: Naoki Yoshida Details FFXIV’s New Mentor System

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Started 2 weeks before HW, I got the roles on 60 and 800+ commendations, but right now I am at around 950 dungeons completed.

Should be easy for you to get the last 50 then. Even if you don't have 1000 runs done, it doesn't mean you can't go out of your way to help people in your own way.

Not to be a downer on this system, as I like the idea behind it, but with them holding off on the material rewards for an unknown amount of time, I fear the Mentor Roulette being vastly underutilized if there isn't some sort of substantial tome reward for a majority of players. It's like running Leveling Roulette when you're 60--no one does that.

I also hope trolls or gil sellers don't abuse the system to run amock in the designated new player channel.

As I stated before, throwing in all the rewards at the start will very likely have a rush of players swarming in and rushing the system just to get the shiny things and then bugger off once they get them all, leaving new players to fend for themselves. Those that really want to help others will do so without the need of a reward. You'd also be quite wrong to assume LV60 players never touch the leveling roulette since I have ran it many times before for the tomestones or boredom. And hey, at least it's not Satasha spam anymore.

As for trolls or RMTs, those are easy to deal with. I have yet to see RMTs reach LV60 and even if they did get there, it's too much work just to get all that way to spam some advertisement when they have much easier methods of doing so. Legit mentors can still invite newbies to the private channel directly to filter RMTs as Yoshida stated. Trolls can be reported so you don't have an excuse to complain about them.

[Riki_Namu]

Should be easy for you to get the last 50 then. Even if you don't have 1000 runs done, it doesn't mean you can't go out of your way to help people in your own way.



As I stated before, throwing in all the rewards at the start will very likely have a rush of players swarming in and rushing the system just to get the shiny things and then bugger off once they get them all, leaving new players to fend for themselves. Those that really want to help others will do so without the need of a reward. You'd also be quite wrong to assume LV60 players never touch the leveling roulette since I have ran it many times before for the tomestones or boredom. And hey, at least it's not Satasha spam anymore.

Whats your point exactly? This is a cool thing for those that help.... who cares if someone want's the shiney stuff then leaves has no effect on new players. Stop trying to put a negative spin on something that has literally no relevance.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Whats your point exactly? This is a cool thing for those that help.... who cares if someone want's the shiney stuff then leaves has no effect on new players. Stop trying to put a negative spin on something that has literally no relevance.

I'm just saying the reason why the rewards are being stalled. If you want to blame someone for looking at the negatives in the mentor system, blame the devs for pushing the rewards back for the reasons I stated.

[Riki_Namu]

I'm just saying the reason why the rewards are being stalled. If you want to blame someone for looking at the negatives in the mentor system, blame the devs for pushing the rewards back for the reasons I stated.

Again who cares about the rewards, if there was just a title just as many people would do it for that then never touch it again. Again has no effect what so ever on new players. There will always be people to help out, even now there are people that help new people. So again, why does someone need to be blamed for a system that doesn't really affect anyone?