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

[szalkerous]

szalkerous I use to have your stance as well but the thing is, look at your party finder just take a look at it over a weeks time span, what does it say no bonus, no bonus, no bonus over and over and over again. What happens to old content it dies, if someone where to do the arr story if they even wanted to do content like coil , or the extreme primals what are the chances they would get a real challenging out of it other than being told to do it unsync id say pretty slim.

Same with hw content with stormblood coming out anyone who comes this summer to the game wont get to do Alexander are the extreme trails sync , hec people now can barely do it without facing the no bonus wall. This game is not welcoming to those whom dont know the content, and doing msq only keeps you trailing from behind, this is coming from someone who hasnt even finished dragons ong because I draged my feet but I know now if I want to do any sort of challenging content then I have to be on that train as soon as it arrives otherwise Ill have to make learning parties and put myself on the spot and be forced to learn content much faster than I would have.

This jump potion is A to give the game more funds which they need, and B it fits with the player bases attitude we are spoiled so content that comes out in jan is old by feb so if anyone wants to do the real stuff the challenging stuff they better do it sooner than later (hence why we need the jump potion ) .

The inherent flaw to running content sync'd is that 24-man raids aren't able to be level sync'd at this point (to the best of my knowledge). There were groups on reddit that were looking to run a lot of content sync'd for the challenge, and even went so far as to manually equip exact ilvl among their entire 24-man to get it done. It's out there. Most of the "no bonus" PF posts are for farms, and a farm usually isn't meant for first-timers. They want to grind as fast as possible multiple times. However the "CLEAR" posts are generally for bonus. People just don't need to advertise that, it's implied.

If you dragged your feet, that's entirely your fault. Most of the content has been out there for a lonnnng time, and over time a lot of it was nerfed (see: Anima weapon) for those who waited too long. They already saw that some people will wait for winter and complain they have no heat or food, and realized that new players would be in the same scenario. So that's kinda a non-excuse.

As for the last paragraph, Square does NOT need money. This game is still sub-based and you can easily find online how much they rake it on that alone... These pots are GREED and GREED ALONE.

Examples: http://massivelyop.com/2016/02/04/sq...l-fantasy-xiv/
(which links to their FY '15 final earnings sheet)

http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/ne...q3earnings.pdf
(direct link to FY '16 just released a few weeks back, showing even greater profit)

For a company that made $1.3 billion USD in sales and $194 million USD in operating income (subscriptions are in that number), with a reported company-wide net profit of $152 million USD in nine months, I don't think we can argue these pots are needed to keep the company, or FFXIV, running.

Not to mention that as far as all my research shows, FFXIV is the #2 subscription MMORPG on the market, and this is even in spite of a lull in players in the months leading up to a major expansion which will explode the playerbase with new and returning players all over again. So if you wanted people to run all that "old" content, I'd be online around June through August.