No more Road to 60 Buff? (Zalera)

[Awha]

They had a good way of handling it road to 60 buffs lasts for 90 days from character creation if the character was created while the server was listed as preferred. Though in the end I do think most people are upset because SE did not mention in advance the buff will be removed. We all knew it was not going to last forever, but a weeks notice would have been nice, but as many people have said in other treads SE does not need to disclose stuff information. In the end I will attempt main reason why I am upset is because the friends I got to try this game jumped ship because leveling felt too slow for them without the buff, which personally I do not see, but for players coming from WoW and SW:ToR yeah FFXIV leveling is slow.

Oh well

[Treska]

Yes there was. Give an item to characters created on new world which set flag +100% exp= true tlimit=90days nontradeable etc. Why are people defending this? Creating an enticement that says "until level 60" and giving players no possible chance to reach level 60 is misleading.

[MrHeartless]

We established here alternative ways of doing so which would have achieved the same goals on their end while not screwing people over a made new characters just before they decided to ditch the preferred status so I do not agree.

[MrHeartless]

Yes there was. Give an item to characters created on new world which set flag +100% exp= true tlimit=90days nontradeable etc. Why are people defending this? Creating an enticement that says "until level 60" and giving players no possible chance to reach level 60 is misleading.

People will defend anything. Even anti-consumer practices. Forgetting ofcourse that they are consumers and not the personal puppets of the companies they defend.

[Aramina]

Yes there was. Give an item to characters created on new world which set flag +100% exp= true tlimit=90days nontradeable etc. Why are people defending this? Creating an enticement that says "until level 60" and giving players no possible chance to reach level 60 is misleading.

Do you have any clue how many classes you could get to 60 (or 59 I guess if it stops as soon as you hit 60) in 90 days? That is *not* a viable solution for the reason I already mentioned: It was not intended to be a severe advantage.

[MrHeartless]

Do you have any clue how many classes you could get to 60 (or 59 I guess if it stops as soon as you hit 60) in 90 days? That is *not* a viable solution for the reason I already mentioned: It was not intended to be a severe advantage.

How do you know what was intended. All we know is what the advertisement for joining these servers was. Join X server for an XP boost. We then found out said XP boost was a Road to 60 buff which is beyond silly when you have people who didn't even get the chance to use it til level 20, let alone 60. Regardless, it was handled poorly and you cannot deny.

[Shurq]

Gotta admit, when I logged on to my char on Gilgamesh yesterday and saw a post offering to throw bonuses at me if i relocated to a less populated server, I was tempted.

This thread makes me glad I didn't accept the bait.

[White_Wolf_X]

While i can see why ppl are mad about it, i have to 100% agree with

Do you have any clue how many classes you could get to 60 (or 59 I guess if it stops as soon as you hit 60) in 90 days? That is *not* a viable solution for the reason I already mentioned: It was not intended to be a severe advantage.

If "new players" had the road to 60 buff for 30-60-90 days etc etc they could pretty much get every single class/job to 59-60 way to easy.

[MrHeartless]

While i can see why ppl are mad about it, i have to 100% agree with



If "new players" had the road to 60 buff for 30-60-90 days etc etc they could pretty much get every single class/job to 59-60 way to easy.

But you're forgetting that those numbers were just suggestions. I played for 2 weeks as much as I could before the buff was gone and I only got 1 class to 60 while I tried out the others to see which ones I liked which is the main thing new players do. If someone were to no life the game fro 60-90 days they could probably get every job to 60 but not many people will do that and even so the buff could last 30 days.

The level cap was also RAISED to 70 with the new expansion making getting to 60 not really no achievement.

There's more ways to look at a situation other than one point of view bud.

[worldofneil]

I am sorry to hear your server lost it's preferred status so that the buff has now been removed, but I would like to politely point out it's not the end of the world...

Many of us levelled up without that buff, without the main story quest exp being boosted, without exp from challenge logs, without Palace of the Dead and without FC buffs (and probably other things that have since been added that I've forgotten about).

Helpful as it is, you don't need the "Road to 60" buff, especially if it's your first class/job as your MSQ will give you enough exp for that job. Sure it's very helpful for other classes, but it has been there a month.