Jump Potion...again

[Zojha]

A lot of the players who pay their way through content are going to be...less than stellar to put it mildly.

A lot of players already are less than stellar >_>

Wouldn't it be more efficient to measure people's performance and then give them the tag depending on how they perform regardless of how they got to endgame? If performance is a concern, the criterion should be performance, not the assumption of a certain performance.

[Theodric]

-snip-.

Well, yes - it's a mixed bag at the moment though the majority of my runs are largely very smooth with a few bad apples here and there. It was much the same when I played WoW. Then, when the equivalent of a 'jump potion' was added there the quality became less of a mixed bag and more a case of bad apples being far more common.

A lot of us - myself included - invested a lot of time and effort into WoW or other similar MMO's. FFXIV serves as a breath of fresh air because it hasn't yet gone down a similar path. WoW didn't become like it is in the present day over the course of a single night, it happened steadily over time. Some of us are well aware as to what such a slippery slope entails. Do you really believe that, if a 'jump potion' becomes a thing there won't be other paid advantages added in the future? It pretty much shifts the Mog Station from being 'cosmetics only' to something more dubious.