Quote Originally Posted by greatestfoe View Post
if they really wanted newcommers to catch up relatively quickly to higher up players then why not just increase the exp earned at lower levels?
"While people will be able to catch up even easier after the release of Stormblood with the adjustments we will make to the amount of experience points obtained, it would still require a lot of time just to reach the starting point of Stormblood. "

Directly from Yoshida's wall of text