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

[Elkanah]

I fully agree with what you said. A Jump potion will not make a player play their job bad. Its that player's laziness when it comes to learning how to use their Job that will make them play bad.

This just makes the matter worse. Prepare for a lot of backlash from the current players and from the community with black lists filled up across all servers. If you're not willing to take the time to understand the job from the ground up and level like everybody else does, let alone the story, your argument is invalid. You're just waiting for backlash to happen. This isn't China, where the time they have is the same or relevant as ours. Or would you rather pay your sub by the hour? Cause that's pretty much what they do there. Le'ts also NOT forget that wages don't work the same way as they do in North America. People also don't have the kind of time North america or Japan might have when it comes to sitting down and playing games. Japan plays more mobile games, but that's besides the point. The point is, you bring in new players > they get the boost > they play the game > and they leave. The only real winner in this conversation is square enix greed system of double purchases.

From a business stand point, I can agree, as this game is so casual that hardcore content is pointless at it is sad. But it's there for the quote unquote 'raiders'. The game, while needing more casual and middle ground content, doesn't keep the interest for more than 5 minutes, so they move on to another game because "Yoshi-p said it's okay to do". As a MMO developer, that's not what you want to tell your audience, but I get it. Not everyone wants to invest in the product when there's nothing to do. So stepping away for 5min and coming back can make it feel quote unquote "rejuvenated" or "like new" again, without breaking the rhythm or the beat.

I don't feel like you understand the difference between China/Korea and North America like you think you do when it comes to the jump potions and why getting them only makes it worse here for the players who play normally, and the people who plan to buy and sell accounts because of Squeenix's decision. Did you also know that China and Korea are heavily KNOWN for gold and gil farmers? Selling accounts at rapid prices to people too, because of the same issue. And a great investment of money right back in the hands of the jump potion buyers. #justsayin