Naoki Yoshida's Comment in Regard to Jump Potions/Boost Potions

[LisannaTargaryen]

I am cross posting my post from Reddit


I am against the Jump Potion at start of 4.0 to put new players with current pool of players.

Negatives of implementing Jump Potions


a) The community does not need those players. You hear players complaining about people not being capable to even clear A9S but those people the jump potion will bring will by no means prepare them to revitalize the raiding scene.

b) The fact players who spend money on their subs and on this game should be rewarded having access to StormBlood.

c) Does not contribute to the long term. People will get bored of the endgame pretty quick while skipping the 90% of what FF 14 has to offer.

d) Does not grow the players gradually and are the most likely candidates to abandon ship easily. Players who are currently subbed care about their accounts and care about to progress even more due to already invested time.

e) A big learning tool into making a capable player is to familiarize how the game warns you about mechanics since most of them are reused

f) It clearly shows a cash grab since almost 30% of new players are willing to spend extra money.

g) Instead of going the hard way and streamline the leveling experience they go for the quick bucks.

h) Many (and i say many) players especially in NA feel entitled because they are at lvl60,70 etc they should be included in farm parties etc etc. We seen the story before. The people who are not willing to put an effort to level an account are also those who are gonna be more entitled to this practices.

i) Does not familirize those players with the community at all. The Do's and Dont's and the Eorzean Etiquette.

Solutions:


A) Jump potion at 4.X series should go at maximum of 2.55. Let player go through HW which is more streamlined and will bring them up to par to 4.0. Give them special Gear in an adequate level say 260 via a "Hall of the Advanced" ,similar to the reward structure of Hall of the Novice.

B) Allow Lvl 60 Potions only to Alt Characters where they have 1 account at lvl 70 (for 4.0)
C) Job Potions its an additional cashgrab since why you skip story when u still have to grind exp to lvl50. Combine it with the option A

[Amariel34]

I admit I am tempted to use this for my alts. I got two character through the entire MSQ, and am not looking forward to it again. But like I said before, if I could *just* get to the start of HW I'd be happy. Also, question. Would the potion unlock Flying for all the HW areas?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

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It's probably how the game is coded to work when it comes to clearing content since it checks for what quests the player cleared before the flags change and all the flags are connected to each other through quest clearing. It would take quite a bit of work to change it all to a different type due to the sheer amount of quests involved and we both know the devs won't change the story or how the story is approached.

If you are gonna remove the gating, then that's pretty much what skip potions are for in the first place; to let you bypass all that.

[Zeonx]

The cost of the potions makes this a lot less viable. The best way to counter RMT is to eat into their potential profits.

It won't Because think of how many RMT will play legit to sell the gil, they won't need to use anything to get high level.

And just transfer the funds.

[EdgeFayth]

This is good news. I have wanted to create multiple alts but I don't have time to play through the story again. With these jump potions, I can make the alts and get to Stormblood.

Are you ready to pay 30 bucks per alt?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

It won't Because think of how many RMT will play legit to sell the gil, they won't need to use anything to get high level.

And just transfer the funds.

I don't think RMT will even bother with this sort of thing since the potions give only 200 or 300K of gil when RMT have been selling by the millions all this time. Too much money for very little return. Plus the gil is tracked anyway.

[JunseiKei]

A) Jump potion at 4.X series should go at maximum of 2.55. Let player go through HW which is more streamlined and will bring them up to par to 4.0. Give them special Gear in an adequate level say 260 via a "Hall of the Advanced" ,similar to the reward structure of Hall of the Novice.

B) Allow Lvl 60 Potions only to Alt Characters where they have 1 account at lvl 70 (for 4.0)
C) Job Potions its an additional cashgrab since why you skip story when u still have to grind exp to lvl50. Combine it with the option A

This doesn't incentivize players who may have separate accounts (you know they exist- quite a few made accounts for recruit-a-friend rewards), kept them and now have ALTs on them.

[Zeonx]

There's no reason for a crafting of gathering jump potion to exist. You don't need them to progress in the game at all, unlike things like MSQ, which all require a Disciple of War or Magic. Unless I missed where it said those were to be included, but I thought I only read story and job jump potions.

((((This is a job leveling potion that can be applied towards a single job.)))) he was giving examples not saying it could happen to mining or crafts also. they are also jobs.

They wouldn't need it, they could boost with no effort and spam gil dungeons or make money and transfer.

We are talking about RMT, everyone is always stating oh they fixed it, now what do we have them inviting us with RMT .com names then after it will be Linkshell invites and then boost potion and market boards being ruined I'll be the first to say I told you so when it happens.

[Zeonx]

I don't think RMT will even bother with this sort of thing since the potions give only 200 or 300K of gil when RMT have been selling by the millions all this time. Too much money for very little return. Plus the gil is tracked anyway.

Never know man, they changed up there thing when they got hit in FFXI pretty hard back in the days never say never.

[Belhi]

It won't Because think of how many RMT will play legit to sell the gil, they won't need to use anything to get high level.

And just transfer the funds.

You realise SE can track the movement of those funds right and identify any 'Legit' accounts being used to funnel gil through. Transfering funds doesn't make the funds untraceable and a banned account that some RMT company has paid the cost for ARR, HW, SB and a story and Job potion is a costly loss of investment.

g) Instead of going the hard way and streamline the leveling experience they go for the quick bucks.

I see this argument come up a lot and so I feel the obvious answer has to be said:

For everyone advocating this, how much content are you willing to give up to free up the resources streamlining the levelling experience would require? Its not a small job. It would require a lot of modification, rewriting dialog and quite a lot of QA. That's all work NOT getting spent on making content for you.

It also doesn't solve the problem in the long term cause come 5.0 any time saved story progression will be lost when Stormblood and its patches gets added to the list of things new players have to clear.

SE devs aren't lazy. They work there asses off. Its not like they just need to work a little harder. Game developers in general are some of the most hardworking people. Particularly at crunch time they work insane hours.