Did people actually charge for PL?

[darkstarpoet1]

depends on who you are asking if they were stupid. if you are asking about the people paying for it then it's a matter of opinion. if you are talking about the people doing it for a fee then i don't blame them at all nor do i consider them stupid at all.

[Vonleo]

I dont want to sound like some elitist jerk, but PL totally rob the fun of the game
And before someone said that grinding is no where fun, it is
Its the process that matter, not the result

and who made you the king/queen of one the way someone should level? to each their own comes into play here....people pay the same sub as you and they can play however they wish....

[rina_inverse]

Yea i know
Opinion etc
Its like playing with gameshark lol

[Alerith]

People are still caught up in the belief that having x number of max level jobs is some sort of status symbol.

These are also, usually, the people who get called out for being complete idiots or being incapable in party content.

[Nuinn]

I dont want to sound like some elitist jerk, but PL totally rob the fun of the game
And before someone said that grinding is no where fun, it is
Its the process that matter, not the result

But what the process is so damn tedious that it makes you question whether what's waiting for you at the imaginary end is worth going through all of that - or just PL. Saying this with a presumption that those classes won't even be played by the person getting PLed. Or even this. . . . People perhaps would like having them capped at 50 and would like to do it the regular way but there's kids, job, who knows what else and just cant do it that way.

My case, as follows: I PL people and get PLed back. Why? I just want the damn crown >.> and although it does devalue the achievement of getting it, especially since some people never, ever PLed, I'm more prone to believe the achievement itself devalues the game. I don't ever intend to play any of the classes I had PLed, so there's that too. The ones I do play I did the hard way, leve linking and grind parties and I really love being 'that character of that specific class/job'.

One other thing to note; I was competely determined to have all my DoW stay at level 0, no matter if it means I'm handicapped more in battles than the people who had all battle jobs at 50. I found some satisfaction in seeing my lodestone profile display a "-" next to a DoW class. But then they added achievements with a shiny thing at the end, and as someone who loves playing dress-up, the PLing end was inevitable for me. Once again coming to the point that achievements can be fun for me, but I'd rather not have them at all, cause the moment they're there I go OCD :/

Oh, and everyone was shouting 'you gotta have Sentinel or you souldn't bother doing Ifrit' when that was released and it made me feel like crap that I can't participate in endgame just cause I don't like leveling or playing Gladiator (no, I can't have a class stay lv36 for eternity - it's not orderly)

Thanks for reading about my mental issues


tl;dr

Can always do it how you feel it suits you best: regular, slower way experiencing each second of it - or fast PL way if you don't care as much for the game in general and/or don't have the time or commitment to do so.

[Peptaru]

I think I wouldn't use the phrase "completely determined" if you caved to pressures.

[rina_inverse]

No harms done Chard
After all, its just an opinion

[Chardrizard]

No harms done Chard
After all, its just an opinion

Of course, so is mine

[DoctorMog]

Chard is anti-penis

[Ruisu]

I've totally considered shouting competition to sell PLing for half the price just to see if I could disband that party or somthing. Not that I care about PLing at all, I just wanted to be a dick.