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

[Alaina]

not only no, but H$% NO....

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

Leave it as-is.

Agreed. No need to fix what ain't broken. I don't understand why people are in a rush to level up. Take your time and enjoy the process.

[sonseray]

I could not be more opposed to leveling potions or any other form of "boosted" leveling, because once something like that is implemented all old content dies as a result. As it stands, you can almost always DF a group for any old content with a bit of patience.

Once they did this in SWTOR, everyone started leaving in droves. MMO's are about becoming powerful over time, and incrementally gaining strength. When new players can skip steps you spent tons of time on, the game starts to feel shallow and cheap.

[Niwashi]

Boosting people to high levels will only cause a greater gap in skilled players. I understand it would be nice for experienced players making alts but for new ones? Heck no

The only way I could possibly accept level potions being added to the game would be if it were limited to experienced players making alts. So you'd need a character who's level X on job Y before you could qualify to get a potion that would boost your other character(s) to level X of job Y. (I still don't really see that that would be useful enough to be worth adding, but at that point I would no longer care if other people wanted it.)

[Doki]

Look at it from a dev standpoint:
"So you want to spend $20~40 on our game & expansion, $25 for a potion of auto-max level, burn through available content in a week, get bored and quit right after?"
"Sure, we'll take your money, and appreciate you not eating up the server bandwidth compared to people that play non-stop for 2 months."

[KitingGenbu]

You silly kids think this will change them from happening lol. So cute!

[Alice_89th]

Agreed. No need to fix what ain't broken. I don't understand why people are in a rush to level up. Take your time and enjoy the process.

Pherhaps broken is too large a word, but doing all of the MSQ (2.0 - 3.3 and eventually 3.5) is quite a daunting amount of work. So once 4.0 hits a more streamlined MSQ would be great for new(er) players. Adding gear like they did for 2.x helps a lot, but I think a few fetch quests could be removed/condensed as well.

[NegativeCreep]

Seriously, a level skipping potion? Why? So we can have even more level 20-60 Dragoons not using Heavy Thrust? Level 50 Black Mages using Fire 3 as their only damage skill? Tanks not running tank stance? Please, please no.

[Jandor]

2.X should be streamlined so that you can run through the MSQ in maybe a solid weekend of determined play, ready to go for 3.X at level 50 with decent gear and all the main 2.X features unlocked. Then play 3.X properly and then start 4.0.

And don't lock exciting new 4.0 features behind completing 3.X this time.

Oh! and lastly, an NPC that can activate new game plus mode resetting all your quests back to their original setup. So people who want the full original experience, Titans dinner party and all, can have it, and people who want to do the story again can run through it with their geared character.

Absolutely no story/level skip potion though please. Not that I have much hope, a £20 potion is far easier to implement and far more profitable than what would no doubt have to be at least a reasonably extensive tweaking of 2.X

[Niwashi]

2.X should be streamlined so that you can run through the MSQ in maybe a solid weekend of determined play, ready to go for 3.X at level 50 with decent gear and all the main 2.X features unlocked.

If by 2.X you're referring to just the patch quests from 2.1 through 2.55, I'm pretty sure that can already be done in a weekend if you're determined about it. If you mean the entire game from the first level 1 quest up through the end of 2.55, then no, that shouldn't be completable in a weekend. There may be a few really short single player games that can be played that quick if you skip everything optional, but people who opt for MMOs are generally looking for a game they can spend some time on. Too many people are asking to streamline the entire game away.

Oh! and lastly, an NPC that can activate new game plus mode resetting all your quests back to their original setup. So people who want the full original experience, Titans dinner party and all, can have it, and people who want to do the story again can run through it with their geared character.

That would be cool.