Server rules for different player demographics

[Belial]

We need servers with different rulesets. Then everyone can just choose the service they want/prefer instead of having to put up with 90% good game with 10% stupid crap.

Basically, there are too many competing interests of FF fans and MMO players that just end up ruining the game overall for everyone. So separate servers with different rulesets are needed.

I hate some of the recent changes and would like a server where I dont have to deal with some of that shit. For example, on my server Optimal Rank and Favoured Class would be on ALL gear and there would be no rare/ex (except on a few things) and there would be no Restrictions on R18 swords! And materia system wouldnt be a stupid grind and there would be none of this guaranteed HQ success crap.

And then there can be another server for all the people that want to painstakingly level their jobs alongside their classes all the way to R50 so they can finally feel complete.

And then there can be a PVP server for people who aren't carebears.

And everyone will live happily after.

It's a bit presumptuous to make MMOs around a one-size-fits-all policy.

It's a bit self-involved to think that SquareEnix should cater to every Tom, Dick & Harry on the planet just because they don't like the game.

I wish people here, who didn't like FFXIV, treated it how other video gamers treat games they don't like.

Don't.... Play... The... Damn... Game.

[ellohwell]

It's a bit self-involved to think that SquareEnix should cater to every Tom, Dick & Harry on the planet just because they don't like the game.

I wish people here, who didn't like FFXIV, treated it how other video gamers treat games they don't like.

Don't.... Play... The... Damn... Game.

I wish people here didnt ruin FFXIV by ruining the Optimal Rank system etc... maybe you should have taken your own advice, with all due respect.

I guess there's a valid point that it might take the devs a long time to balance content around rulesets. However, combat is really the only thing which requires a lot of balance. There are certain things like Gear system and the extent of grind which I honestly don't see taking too much effort to rebalance. It honestly can't be that hard.

Nobody's asking SE to create a unified field theory or anything. All I ask for is a few different rulesets. It's really not asking for much, lol.

[Answa]

combat is really the only thing which requires a lot of balance.

certain things like Gear system and the extent of grind which I honestly don't see taking too much effort to rebalance.

[ellohwell]

No offence but changing EXP rate/EXP cap isnt hard. It's just changing a freaking number. Use your brain.

Again, they already had a working Optimal Rank/Favoured System, so they already have the code for that. Honestly, you underestimate the human mind if you think it would be hard to keep a minimum of two alternate servers up with these two different rulesets.

[Answa]

No offence but changing EXP rate/EXP cap isnt hard. It's just changing a freaking number. Use your brain.

Again, they already had a working Optimal Rank/Favoured System, so they already have the code for that. Honestly, you underestimate the human mind if you think it would be hard to keep a minimum of two alternate servers up with these two different rulesets.

I don't understimate your brain.

Everything affects overall balance. SE has always handled balance overall in a very particular way. You're asking a rightie to start writing with his left hand.

Or trying to turn a gay guy straight.

Pick an analogy, I don't care.

Follow Belial's advice. Please. Seriously.

[Belial]

I wish people here didnt ruin FFXIV by ruining the Optimal Rank system etc... maybe you should have taken your own advice, with all due respect.

Why? I'm the one over here enjoying things.

Coincidentally, I'm also a fortune teller.

*flips card*

Your future looks bleak.

*flips card*

Not good at all.

*flips card*

Aww... looks like SE's gonna ignore your idea.