Why this Live Letter Matters

[Ransu]

No developer or producer should ever encourage its own playerbase to play other games, because it's seen exactly as is: an excuse to slow down the progress, the content and stall everything else. You can white knight Yoshi-P and SE all you want, but I have 20 years of experience playing MMORPGs, and while he may be doing this in good faith, it's actually going to backfire really fast. They're already nerfing the next tier savage, which sure, it's good for raiders, but it's obviously done so people can play the new FFXVI instead.

You can bicker with me all you want, I stand by my statement, whether you like it or not.

I grew up on games like EQ/XI. I have no interest in MMO's going back to that crap of forcing you to no life the game for even the most basic things like leveling up. Old school XI could take almost a year to reach level cap and then you had to constantly farm resources just so you could use those resources to force pop a world boss that could be stolen by another group.

[Rehayem]

I grew up on games like EQ/XI. I have no interest in MMO's going back to that crap of forcing you to no life the game for even the most basic things like leveling up. Old school XI could take almost a year to reach level cap and then you had to constantly farm resources just so you could use those resources to force pop a world boss that could be stolen by another group.

My main point is that there needs to be balance, and this is no easy task for any MMORPG, don't get me wrong. If they want to cut down the grind, then they should give you something more to do, even if it's short. V&C was a great example, but executed poorly.