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

[HyoMinPark]

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Forgetting about story-skip potions, which I still don't like, and don't agree with, but I disagree even more with the job potions...I don't see why being against job potions would make me "entitled."


Like I mentioned before, we already have players that get to 60, and have no idea how to play the job, nor do they care. We have players unlocking the 3.0 jobs, not bothering to read tooltips, not bothering to learn their skills, heck, some don't even bother to do their very first job quest. While they aren't the majority, I just question how letting players buy leveling potions, and handing them all of their skills, will improve the quality of the player base. I know that bad and lazy players will continue to be bad and lazy, potion or no potion, but I feel like the job jump potions will encourage more of that. Especially since it seems like there's no Hall of Novice equivalent for those that use them in the Korean version.

Different regions have different player bases. So most of the Korean ones seem to be for alts. Who knows if that will be the case here, what with so many newer players complaining about how they want to be level 60 already so they can raid or do EX primals or whatever. It may be the same for the NA/EU/JP player base, or it may go entirely in the other direction. What with how so many people in the West basically want everything for free or for minimal work/effort, I just have the nagging feeling it's going to teeter in the opposite direction. I hope I am wrong.

Not to mention it seems like you get weapons and gear with it...and not just any gear. With the level 50 ones, sounds like they just hand you i120 poetics stuff (or items to exchange for it). What will they do with the 60 ones? Hand out i260 gear?

Maybe things will get worse. Maybe they won't. But that still doesn't change that adding those potions to the cash shop teeters on P2W, and I don't understand how just asking for this game to NOT go in that direction is being "entitled." First job jump potions, but where does it stop? Does it stop there? Or does it go further, by adding more jump/buff items? Purchasable relics? Gear? It's a slippery slope.

Again, I really hope that my fears and concerns are misplaced, and that I am wrong in worrying that this player base will go the complete opposite direction of the Korean player base.