Plan to remove benefit for failing leves?

[Altano]

First, not attacking you Altano - your opinion is a valid observation.

but..

Who intentionally designs a system where failing is preferable to succeeding? I just thought it would require a little common sense to understand SE didn't intend for this behavior when they designed the system, and therefore I wouldn't need to prove anything. Regardless, the fact that they are working on a fix has provided the proof since I wrote my original post and before the post I just responded to previously. I could go into further detail as to why leaving things the way they are is bad for the game, but since I already know they're working on it there's really no point.

It has nothing to do with ethics, but rather with people who argue against fixing the game because they're benefiting from pieces of it that were poorly implemented. Those people irritate me yes, so maybe the tone of my posts is slanted, but I never called them cheaters. Whenever this issue gets brought up there's always people who immediately jump on it in an attempt to defend their actions regardless of what you say. "It's not cheating, SE said so!" Give me a break.

The question is, why does it bother you so much if they're using a system in a way it wasn't intended? Plenty of systems have been used in plenty of MMOs in ways they were never intended. What makes something an exploit of a broken system as opposed to creative thinking? You don't like the concept of people failing on purpose. But as I've pointed out in an earlier post, it's been done before and not in just isolated circumstances and people have had no problems with it. You disliking it doesn't alone make the system broken, even if you think it is "common sense." If SE has come out and said it isn't cheating, then really what leg do you have to stand on?

Again, I don't think the term "fixing" is appropriate, because adding a bonus more like an adjustment, for the following reason: I honestly doubt a SP bonus for finishing the leves will change this behavior because the problem is, as many have pointed out, in linking leves. SP comes incredibly quickly when you link the hyper-profitable leves, and being guaranteed the same leves with a static group every 36 hours is almost surely going to still be a better tradeoff than taking the completion bonus. Unless the bonus is so large that it breaks leve-linking. At which point we're back to the "nobody ever parties in FFXIV" problem.