Just remove leveling altogether if it's such a hindrance.

[AsterBarnivere]

At this point I'd rather see the progress in leveling stay at this rate then to see it sped up.

新生でも短期間で５０になれる
In 2.0 you can reach level 50 in short period of time.

Maybe some people saw this and took it as leveling speed will increase in 2.0

Well I remember in an interview that he DID say he wanted new players in 2.0 to catch up with the Pre-2.0 players and will give them incentives to catch them up. (But who says 50+ will be just as fast, it just might slow down from there)

[SuzakuCMX]

Well I remember in an interview that he DID say he wanted new players in 2.0 to catch up with the Pre-2.0 players and will give them incentives to catch them up. (But who says 50+ will be just as fast, it just might slow down from there)

Woo yeah 20,000,000 EXP to get to 51!

[ArkNova]

This thread isn't to discuss the leveling speed per-se but about the idea that leveling is somehow a hindrance, that the "game doesn't start until cap", etc.

Ah fair enough, then yeah I can see the concern considering I don't think there's been talk of content at low or mid levels. The ride from 1-50 should be rewarding in exploring new areas and seeing new things but with our current map system if a new player takes 1 wrong turn in the shroud they're one shot for 9999 and then level 70 mobs load on their screen.

[Shurrikhan]

Ah fair enough, then yeah I can see the concern considering I don't think there's been talk of content at low or mid levels. The ride from 1-50 should be rewarding in exploring new areas and seeing new things but with our current map system if a new player takes 1 wrong turn in the shroud they're one shot for 9999 and then level 70 mobs load on their screen.

Well, the server framework, world and mob distributions are all supposed to be changed in 2.0 at least. Hopefully that issue will be resolved and the world a sufficiently fun place to explore for the time it takes to level. It's reasonable to guess that 2.0's leveling experience will be competent, even if not especially compelling.

[Dragon]

Ah fair enough, then yeah I can see the concern considering I don't think there's been talk of content at low or mid levels. The ride from 1-50 should be rewarding in exploring new areas and seeing new things but with our current map system if a new player takes 1 wrong turn in the shroud they're one shot for 9999 and then level 70 mobs load on their screen.

Exactly, thank you good sir.

[SuzakuCMX]

Exactly, thank you good sir.

Welcome to the FFXIV forums, where nobody cares what you actually say but will read the first sentence of your post and assume you're implying something you never touched and then argue with you over it.

[Dragon]

Well, the server framework, world and mob distributions are all supposed to be changed in 2.0 at least. Hopefully that issue will be resolved and the world a sufficiently fun place to explore for the time it takes to level. It's reasonable to guess that 2.0's leveling experience will be competent, even if not especially compelling.

I'd hope so, but if the dev team views leveling as a hindrance (hopefully not, but it has been swayed before...), I don't know. I'm already in the position to quit at 2.0 with all current information known (not a threat, just a personal fact).

[ArkNova]

I'd really like to know who said leveling is a hindrance. We know Reinheart translated it http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...426#post738426 and I dont doubt his translation skills but who is edo_colgon? Did he interview Yoshi and Yoshi said he views leveling as a hindrance? Or is he a member on the community that has concerns about how leveling is treated? This is in no way meant to be taken as an attack on Edo because that would be pretty dick to do but I ask as a curious person who is Edo?

[Maxthunder]

Wow, talk about totally missing the point. WTF?

I gave you my opinion on the subject in general. There is room for a variety of ways to get exp, just because this person dosent like this or that dosent mean someone else will like what the other person enjoys. You wont ever take the grind out of a MMO it will always be there in 1 form or another. More often than not when a thread like this is posted it is more about: its to easy or too hard or dare I say it players wanting stuff and not wanting to work for it.

[Dragon]

I'd really like to know who said leveling is a hindrance. We know Reinheart translated it http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...426#post738426 and I dont doubt his translation skills but who is edo_colgon? Did he interview Yoshi and Yoshi said he views leveling as a hindrance? Or is he a member on the community that has concerns about how leveling is treated? This is in no way meant to be taken as an attack on Edo because that would be pretty dick to do but I ask as a curious person who is Edo?

I'm not targeting anyone specific and don't mean to, and likewise I wouldn't bother with names. But there was a couple of posts in the thread that got locked earlier today that someone directly claimed it to be a hindrance and, and there have been claims made before about it both in this and other forums related to FFXIV and not related with similar opinions.

I decided I had enough of it.