Powerleveling ruined my day

[kensredemption]

I'm on a bit of both, but for personal reasons.

I dont like instant-50 or PLing because it would ruin a core feature of a site I Run

On the other hand

Levelling is a pointless feature to a game and is a massive roadblock to the casual player where as its nothing to those who can have 4-5 friends playing 24/7.

How can you make both happy?

As one of the casual players, I think it would have been better to give the player a choice when they made their character, either:

1) To elect to play alone through most of the game, being able to level up somewhat quickly and being able to play with only 7 other people of their choosing from their friend's list that can be managed upon request but is otherwise set in stone.
2) To follow the traditional MMO mechanic of the hours upon hours of grinding and grouping up with random people.

I'd be happy with the first option to be honest, so that all the elitists can quit complaining about people PLing others, but so that solo players can be happy moving at their own pace but not have to slave as much due to their own circumstances that prevent them from committing to this game full time. I don't care if I have to be relocated to a different server compared to others - no compromise is too demanding for this to be implemented.

[Lavani]

As one of the casual players, I think it would have been better to give the player a choice when they made their character, either:

1) To elect to play alone through most of the game, being able to level up somewhat quickly and being able to play with only 7 other people of their choosing from their friend's list that can be managed upon request but is otherwise set in stone.
2) To follow the traditional MMO mechanic of the hours upon hours of grinding and grouping up with random people.

I'd be happy with the first option to be honest, so that all the elitists can quit complaining about people PLing others, but so that solo players can be happy moving at their own pace but not have to slave as much due to their own circumstances that prevent them from committing to this game full time. I don't care if I have to be relocated to a different server compared to others - no compromise is too demanding for this to be implemented.

So you basically want power leveling to be soloable?

[kensredemption]

So you basically want power leveling to be soloable?

Read the second paragraph before you reply again. I don't have all the time in the world to be playing XIV, neither do my friends. They're not exactly like the hardcore MMO elitist gamer that's being mass-produced thanks to the other W-MMOs. Besides, the only reason I had any appeal to XIV in the first place was because I heard it was going to be solo friendly, and in my opinion, that does not include slaving 72 hours a week doing the same thing others who can play the game full-time with a group and be forced to do so by myself.