One perspective of the game's direction.

[tkr34]

As of now, the lot system of Crystal tower is, in my opinion, flawed. I understand that you do not want to hand out gear, and that if you did, it would depreciate the value of obtaining the item, it just wouldn't feel "worked for". The "one item per week" system would only give me possibly two or more hours of play a week. Given that there is a fixed number of tomes that I can spend per week, I was looking at Crystal Tower as a means to "catch up" my alternate jobs to be able to enjoy other content from a different perspective. It would be more efficient to acquire gear on alternate jobs if I leveled an entirely new character, and even then, the achievements are not account shared and Square Enix has loosely stated that there was no need to make additional accounts.
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