Poll : Should FF14 allow purchasable “leveling potion” ? Please vote!

[Judah_Brandt]

Yoshiyuki, I'm tempted to create a thread in the development section for them to add a "Dislike" button just so I could at least visually show you how pedantic your response is. The argument of "It's all ready a problem, so let's add to the problem" is just about the dumbest argument one could make.

Let's not forget that the idea, to have a player pay extra money for less content in a video game, is inherently stupid. They'd be selling you 1/3rd of their current product and a fastpass to the awesome endgame of Extreme Roulette, where you'd be berated for looking like a doofus since you'd be largely clueless. So the business plan is to make 2/3rds of the content irrelevant since the rewards would be negligible due to the fact that you're all ready max level and the way the gear system functions. Yep, if that isn't how to retain new customers I dunno what is. So many better solutions exist it's mind-boggling they'd even consider poisoning the player base this extensively. Clip the story quests, condense the rewards, and ungate the jobs from the expansion's and you have a far more functional solution.

[PharisHanasaki]

Not remove then entirely, more like remove their requirement to be able to progress.

Yes, that's what I meant. Removing them from being part of the MSQ. Because the ending cutscenes before arriving at HW are so good ;o; I really feel it would be a shame if people didn't have to go through that.

[Xlantaa]

No, pay for win no. This is a clear pay for win feature. If you do that, I want free mothly game. Do you will do it? No, then, no pay for win features.

[MagiusNecros]

Why not just add an item to purchase with ingame currency in lieu of the commercial manuals crafters/gatherers can obtain?

[CuteWhisper]

I am very against this, I don't think I would even still play since it's really close to P2W which is not a good thing at all. I know my sub wouldn't matter much.

[BorisDaBlade]

No. Leave as is. If I had to suffer through Minfilia, everyone has to.

I'm not against all jobs being unlocked, but start at level 1.

[OliviaJ]

No. Leave as is. If I had to suffer through Minfilia, everyone has to.

I'm not against all jobs being unlocked, but start at level 1.

Hey now, what's wrong with Minfilia? I even bought her gear to glamour!

[BorisDaBlade]

Hey now, what's wrong with Minfilia? I even bought her gear to glamour!

Lol her outfit was pretty nice. I guess I mean the 1000's of time she can't utilize a Bluetooth device. Should have just handed us a pager. XD

[Khyzen]

I can understand how it would be useful. It's hard to bring in friends and new players to the game when they basically have to play... probably around 100 hours at least before being able to catch up to current content. And a lot of people are right, it's a Final Fantasy game, the story is kind of central. But let's be honest, there was sooo much filler and tedious sections in the ARR storyline it'd be nice to be able to truncate or skip some of it (looking at you, "Company of Heroes," you useless waste of space.)

But I don't think the answer is a leveling potion, I think the answer is to not gate content so hard. You shouldn't have to be 50 to glamour. You shouldn't have to be 50 + 2nd Lieutenant just to have your own room. You should be able to have fun PvPing a lot sooner (if that's your thing). The Heavensward jobs shouldn't be gated behind 100 hours of story-locked content.

Just let players have a better time enjoying more features early on. You don't need leveling potions.

[LunaFaye]

I am one of those "morons" that has more than 1 character, and even so I hate to level all of them. Mostly when reaching patch 2.3 I think to myself that a leveling potion would be amazing. On the side note while running through more MSQ, I think to myself how bad that would be. Sure for me personally its amazing if I could just cut all this MSQ's since I've gone through that at least 4 times, but it's defiantly bad for people that have no idea about the game. So I rather vote for no BUT if SE would make something like lets say: You have to have at least 1 level 60 character (all jobs at 60 as well as crafting/gathering) on that specific account (not even server) to be able to purchase one of these potions, than I would be all for it. But just because I am that selfish and tired of having to level once again another character on a other server or for weekly lockouts lol.