No more Road to 60 Buff? (Zalera)

[Brazzers]

I might understand if TC was an old player who just transferred and lost a bunch of stuff, but as a new player, really? I just started playing too, I didn't pick the preferred servers because I really didn't feel like powerleveling through everything. I'm almost 50 (44 and have played seriously maybe 5 days) and it hasn't even remotely felt like a grind. You speak of so many other "great games with good devs" but in reality, there really aren't any. I'd like to see examples, because if you're gonna complain about this minute "omg they took away a free bonus and im new and its not fair", that's really just being nit-picky and not actual justification to consider a company shady. Blizzard has done some extremely shady stuff, so has Zenimax (Eso) and so has every other f2p mmo that still exists out there. Take your pick.

[Awha]

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While true, begs the question as to how many people are truly willing to slog through the leveling process after experiencing such exp gains. Personally it does not bother me all that much only thing that bothers me is I have no real good response to my friends that find the leveling in FFXIV slow. While it may not be slow, and does have many options to level end of the day the leveling experience is slow compared to players that come from WoW or SW:ToR, especially if you do not enjoy doing side quests or wish to level up another job, do not even get me started on the gap between level 46 and 49.

[MistakeNot]

While true, begs the question as to how many people are truly willing to slog through the leveling process after experiencing such exp gains. Personally it does not bother me all that much only thing that bothers me is I have no real good response to my friends that find the leveling in FFXIV slow. While it may not be slow, and does have many options to level end of the day the leveling experience is slow compared to players that come from WoW or SW:ToR, especially if you do not enjoy doing side quests or wish to level up another job, do not even get me started on the gap between level 46 and 49.

What is the problem with slow leveling? It just means you get to play the game for longer until you reach the end of the game (aka "endgame".)

(Oh, and my experience with WoW is that the early leveling is just as slow there.)

[MrHeartless]

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Bruh, no one cares that you leveled up without the buff. You are clearly not a new player who was the primary target of the buff in the first place. Thank you for your opinion but it is beyond redundant given the point of the buff in the first place: 1. to entice players to low pop servers and 2. to give the brand new players a way to catch up atleast one job alittle.

[MrHeartless]

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I'm glad you've enjoyed your experience. I am not at all sure what your argument about good devs has to do with anything. This is the game I am currently playing and my wish for this is the same as that for all games; to have a great community and good publisher/devs who listen to their audience and consider them when making decisions that affects them.

People like you are unable to empathize because something does not affect you. Just because other games, big or small, have shitty communities and devs does not mean we should wholesale accept it. Have some backbone.

[brogettoku]

i'm surprised how many ppl actually agree with OP, typically these type of compliants are met with downvotes and hate but you are right and i agree

if the double xp is a time limited event, give it a timer or a deadline, do not dynamically update it, these are people we are talking about not just data sets

[ClodimusPrime]

From: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...037.1501176086

Creating a new character on a Preferred World will earn you the bonuses outlined below.

These bonuses will remain in effect until the active player population of Congested and Preferred Worlds has stabilized. Please note, however, that the population status of a World is subject to change, and that if a World is removed from the "Preferred" category, the EXP bonus will no longer be applied.

It clearly states that the buff's not going to be around forever (same for New Worlds a little further up). I didn't even know this was a thing that people were complaining about until I took a jaunt through the forums. Why? It was clearly written that it wouldn't be around forever. I can understand people's frustrations over losing out on the buffed exp gain, but even then, it's in the title. It's a "Road" to 60, not a skip to 60.

[Awha]

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Leveling slow is fine for some, but for others it is not. That buff was the only reason I was able to even get my friends to consider to try out FFXIV and overall the enjoyed it, but not enough sit through the slower leveling experience.

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I think the issue people are having is that they simply did not post anywhere when it was going to happen. I am sure their metrics at detailed enough that they could have told people two weeks in advance, or do not funnel people to said pref worlds a week before they are removed off the pref list.

[brogettoku]

From: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...5d22338cf55ce7



It clearly states that the buff's not going to be around forever (same for New Worlds a little further up). I didn't even know this was a thing that people were complaining about until I took a jaunt through the forums. Why? It was clearly written that it wouldn't be around forever. I can understand people's frustrations over losing out on the buffed exp gain, but even then, it's in the title. It's a "Road" to 60, not a skip to 60.

having to go to some buried page on the lodestone and finding 1 sentence that states an arbitrary and vague date, right

[Niwashi]

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

So what in the world are you complaining about? You admit you got the full 60 levels out of it and then some.

Someone who had just created their character and hadn't (or had barely) begun leveling yet when the bonus disappeared might be a little disappointed, but then they wouldn't have much invested in that character yet, either. They can just re-create it on a different server if they care enough.

Because still being new to the game and leveling different classes having to take at least twice as long to level would kill my enjoyment for this game.

Losing just one XP buff among many wouldn't make it take anywhere near twice as long to level. You mention leveling different classes. Well you still get a 100% bonus just for that. Assuming you're logging out in cities or near aetherites, the rested bonus will add another 50%. I don't know if your FC uses the leveling FC buffs, but if so, those can add 5, 10, or 15%. Through the early levels, there's gear that can give XP bonuses, 30% for the Brand-new Ring and another 20% for the Friendship Circlet. And there's always an extra 3% just for using food, even the cheap stuff you can pick up at a vendor for 5 gil per half hour. Then if you get into killing numerous mobs, increasing chain bonuses build up on top of all those fixed ones. And that's not even getting into the content related bonuses from things like Roulette or the Challenge Log.

Zalera's loss of "Preferred" status lost you just one of your XP bonuses. Admittedly, it was one of the nice ones, but all the others are still there.