Info about the Chinese Cash Shop "Level Jumping Potions"

[DevilsDontFly]

Totally against it, and I hope it stays in the chinese version for good.

Might seem small for some people but I've been playing online games long enough to know those "small steps" lead to broken cash shop in the long run.
We start with level potions now and then what? Materia bundles on MogStation? Gil boost potion? Say no to it before it's too late, otherwise a single "yes" from the community might end up resulting on uncalled for "shortcuts" at the MogStation. The fact that we have to pay for more inventory (retainers) is already dumb enough.

[Zhamkyong]

Nope.

Nope, not.

No, leave that out of the game. I dont mattter if someone tells me "But i dont want to level all the game to play Heavensward and End-game". You play the game to learn about it's lore, to learn how to use your class and all the shit that comes with it.

If you play to skip content, story and the learning mechanics go play minecraft.

Leave the Fantasy as it is now.

[Asmodai]

What would be better is a mentor system, where you could power level people under 50.

[RyuSaarva]

chinese should just stop playing mmos, it's the worst genre for them.

[FoxyAreku]

Isn't this because the Chinese have a different lifestyle than most westerners?

I could be wrong, but I hear a lot of people in China work so much that they don't have the time to dedicate to an MMO, so if that's true it makes sense they would release something like this so they can still make a profit over there.

I know that holds true for some people in the US as well...but to a much lesser extent.

[Blacksail]

No! This is horibble! am I reading this for real.. No! A million times no.. People would have no experience of the game, their job, the world.. Anything!! This is horrible! Not to mention easy leveling for the you know who spammers to buy accounts and farm.. 100% against this!! Is this Square Enix we're talking about? Holy.. Why even in heavens name would you want to skip the story.. Its so good.. I could cry

[FoxyAreku]

No! This is horibble! am I reading this for real.. No! A million times no.. People would have no experience of the game, their job, the world.. Anything!! This is horrible! Not to mention easy leveling for the you know who spammers to buy accounts and farm.. 100% against this!! Is this Square Enix we're talking about? Holy.. Why even in heavens name would you want to skip the story.. Its so good.. I could cry

I say time and time again, while it may just be my opinion, it's hard to deny that the leveling story is 90% filler quests that do nothing but get you some experience.

Feels like they didn't put any effort into the plot until after level 50. After level 50 and on into heavensward though, it's a lot better, but THAT is why so many people want to skip it.

[Schwarzwind]

I would not mind the option to start at lvl 50 as long as you already have a character on your account that has finished the HW mainstory. I am thinking about people that love to twink, but hate to go all the way through the vanilla story again.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

That boils down to poor game design, and then placing a band-aid that's not a proper solution but rather a way for them to profit from their own mistakes (which would incentivise not fixing the issue, and continuing on with that poor design for further expansions). A story in a game should not be a chore, especially in a Final Fantasy game, that doubles down for when you lock almost all content behind it unlike other MMORPGs. Cut out the filler quests, boost the EXP from the quests left over and boost the EXP gained from the Heavenward MSQ so the newer players aren't forced to do every side quest in the area to be able to progress the MSQ... especially when that content is not voiced which is a huge turn off for a lot of people I've attempted to recruit, but also incredibly boring story and gameplay wise.

Now you have players who have actually played the game up to 60, done the content and enjoyed(?) the MSQ, are familiar with the basic systems of the game and MMORPGs in general. You have to remember that a lot of players interested aren't MMORPG players and may have not even played as they're playing it for the Final Fantasy name alone, dropping those kind of players in would go terribly for both them, and the players that play with them. People who buy the level boost in WoW are current or returning players so it's not a huge deal skill wise, WoW doesn't see much fresh players unlike FFXIV (from what we've told).

I had the same thought. If they condensed the 2.0 down and eliminated a good chunk of pointless fetch quests (looking at you Company of Heroes), it would make digesting the game much easier on newer players. But someone else pointed the issue in doing so. The devs would need to rewrite each and every portion of the game they condensed otherwise things might not lineup properly. That will take time and resources away from developing new content for 4.0 itself. If they could find a means to do something like this without it impacting anything else, then I'd be all for it. If not, well...

[bass9020]

People act like its still an occurring thing. Ever since patch 3.1 the filler quests are nonexistent! Also without the MSQs how would you level up quickly? The reason there are so many of them is to get you to lvl cap without having to do much else. I blame the players for this one since they are so used to fetch quests for exp, in the end we got quantity over quality for MSQs so people could level up quicker.

So lets say we only get a story skipper and not a level up potion, you honestly think people are going to stick around and just FATE/run dungeons they don't even know anything about to lvl up? In the end both options are horrible and this whole omg new players crap needs to stop.