Info about the Chinese Cash Shop "Level Jumping Potions"

[DarkB]

so i am just curious to understand how anybody can be against this. I've played xi for years hardcore, played xiv since alpha release hardcore, leveled a crapton of classes to max, i've been playing for so long i lost the count.

But i can tell you something for sure, after you played xiv trough main scenario quest once, you can not do that again, you can not get the same xp boost you get from these quests because you already have done these, so you are left into a mindless fate grinding or spamming the same dungeons (you have been doing) over and over.

Now can please someone sane explain me where is the fun in that for you to complain about intruducing a leveling potions? If you have fun in doing what i've just explained, just do it, the potion wont remove anything from you, go ahead, your choice, but why do you have to complain about an alternative?

It is quite objective that leveling is extremely boring, especially since you can not benefit from the main scenario quests xp and gils. When FATEs came out everyone was complaining about how boring was that system, yet it was never changed. Now complaining because someone doesnt want to do a repetitive boring grinding that litterally doesnt help you trough anything (unless you are new to the game, in that case i can understand but still you have a choice to play the game trough MSQ or not) in particular, makes me laugh honestly.

It is a good thing and personally i'd just let people have all old MSQ completed even if they are new to the game, full access to Heavensward to everybody and 1 class already at 50 as soon as you start the game.

Are you one of these players that love storyline, read all the text, do all the quests? do it, no one prevents you to
Are you one of these players who gets bored after the same quest over and over, click here, teleport there, talk with this npc, talk with that npc, report to that npc? buy the potions and skip it.
Are you one of these players who love to bild your character step by step, level by level, you want to grind and love to exp at your own pace? go do it.
Are you one of these players who doesnt like to level other classes after your main because it is just repetitive mindless grinding on a game that is already so much repetitive with weekly lockouts and recycled content? buy the potion and skip it.

Everyone is happy, not sure why you want to deny other people to be happy too, sounds selfish to me.

Oh and in case you pulling out the card of "but people dont learn their class if they get boosted to 50", that is simply bs, there are people that played for years and they are still crap, so skipping 50 levels wont make the difference between a good and a bad player. if you understand how the game works you'll be fine.

[ZhaneX]

It is quite objective that leveling is extremely boring

Hardly. Since I can tell you that I had a good deal of fun leveling everything up, and feel a tad bored with end-game progression by comparison. That might not be your experience, but saying that leveling is boring is an objective fact is objectively wrong.

Now yes, you do have a point. I would utterly ignore these potions, they would not influence how I choose to experience the game in the slightest. I'm free to delve as deeply into the game's world as I like as I always have. Those who choose to just skip everything? Their loss.

But while that is true, I and many others I'm sure, feel that it sets a worrying precedent. It has been mentioned previously in this thread that, contrary to what some like yourself claim, such potions have had a negative influence, and oftentimes create more problems for those who use them than they solve. Moreover, I personally feel that encouraging such outright lazy options will only encourage further lazy behavior; both in players and, more worryingly, in the developers. Now I can't say that this is a certainty, merely a [potentially unfounded and paranoid] fear of mine. But all the same, regardless of how little an impact they may have on my personal experience, I will maintain that such things are a bad idea, plain and simple.