[dev1021] Skill Points and EXP values are way too low.

[Allanon]

But hey, this is my first MMO. I am starting to think that I am way off base here and may have picked the wrong one to start with.

Final Fantasy is a great game or was until this rendition. Final Fantasy games have always been a challenge and right now most fanbased players feel like we are being spoon-fed. Most of us are just tired of the give me patches that the players that have not played Final Fantasy before are wanting. The give me patches are not going to stop the "weekend warriors" from leaving the game once we have to start paying. It has always been sorta like this....If a player wants easy game that does not take much effort play WoW, if they want effort and a feel of accomplishment play Final Fantasy.

[Fleur]

Final Fantasy is a great game or was until this rendition. Final Fantasy games have always been a challenge and right now most fanbased players feel like we are being spoon-fed. Most of us are just tired of the give me patches that the players that have not played Final Fantasy before are wanting. The give me patches are not going to stop the "weekend warriors" from leaving the game once we have to start paying. It has always been sorta like this....If a player wants easy game that does not take much effort play WoW, if they want effort and a feel of accomplishment play Final Fantasy.

Ah, I understand. I do like having a challenge and I want the game to take a loooong time to "finish", for lack of a better word. But if the majority of the player base thinks that it is entirely appropriate for a group to get more than three times the SP as a solo player does doing leves -- an activity that was supposedly designed for solo and casual players, and takes more time to do solo -- then that would be a good indication to me that I may be in the wrong game. xD

[Physic]

Actually in all honesty part of the big problem was the whole SP system they instituted, the game was designed around a whole different mechanic, and enemies made more sense. As it is, enemies exp value doesnt reflect thier difficulty. This has lead to the game seeming too easy. Before you went out to fight difficult monsters because the reward was better, or because they fit the playstyle of your team. Parties of 15 people used to be able to get great exp from a tough fight, where smaller groups were able to get competive exp from a fight that felt just as tough for the the smaller team. heck properly built two man parties could pimp the exp, if they had teh right mob. Oh it had problems, but the whole game was designed around it, monsters made so much more sense. and you could have relatively long and rewarding fights.

But that is gone, and now we have to try to balance all the exploits, we are back to having to getting very little benefit for fighting difficult mobs. Also since now regular mobs are generally bad with exp, the only way to get good exp is by doing certain leves, A lot of problems are coming from trying to totally change only 1 aspect of the game, The current sp system makes the game super leve centric, and doesnt actually help casual players much. but oh well, its here now.