Stop with the FOMO

[SquishyPlushie]

I genuinely don't get this one as a problem. There's no FOMO in FFXIV on ilvl because as soon as the next raid gets released, new crafted gear that's a higher ilvl than the previous Savage gear is released. No one has to worry about being far behind except those trying to do Ultimate when it's first released and those players are rarely going to be coming out of nowhere to do it.








If players would stopped travelling off Dynamis to get parties for content (unless part of a multi-DC static), they would find a larger end game population than was on the data center when it opened 10 months ago. I don't have a problem getting PFs to fill in a reasonable amount of time when I list one on Dynamis because there are players that would rather be doing content on Dynamis.

You're going to have a hard time staying happy in a MMMORPG if all you think about is how fast you can get the best gear and you find hard time gates more annoying than the RNG loot systems other games like ARPGs use. They might shower you with gear so you feel like you're making progress but if you track when you play, you'll realize that endgame gearing is going just as slow if not slower with the RNG systems than with the time gating.

No, I want the slow gear grind. One where I don't run into weekly caps or lockouts though. I keep hitting the loot lockouts and caps same day of reset day and going nowhere as a result 6 and a half days out of 7.

No I will not pay to avoid playing pay off crafters, that's non interactive and will feel like I failed. One of the reasons I quit WoW DragonFlight was because Blizzard tried pushing crafting as a replacement for playing the game, it wasn't just the weekly vault loot and raid lockout FOMO burning me.

What I want is what we had for the levelling experience of FFXIV from 1-89. Hitting 90 and being steered into weekly caps and lockouts and being told to just get crafted gear is F tier meaningless. If you want me playing current raid tier when it comes out, it has to be uncapped. Low drop rates are fine, but keep it uncapped. I'm here for the grind, if you don't offer one then I won't touch your content.

Anyways I see playing on Dynamis as a blessing, as it's keeping me away from the trash timegate+FOMO endgame. Sure I want the cosmetics, but I refuse to be trolled by the usual gamedev hand in cookie jar timegate and caps.