Hard Mode Servers

[KyroeFelix]

How about death = xp loss? Since everything you've mentioned is from XI/XIV 1.xx.

[Galliano]

How about death = xp loss? Since everything you've mentioned is from XI/XIV 1.xx.

Yeah that would be good as well.

[NoctisUmbra]

What goals in FFXIV takes longer than one day? Nothing.

How long did it take before you cleared Twintania again?

How about the extreme primals?

[Onidemon]

That doesn't sound like hard mode but more like time waster mode. There's nothing difficult about making things take more time to do... it's just that... longer and annoying.

[CrowBlader]

lol to anyone saying perma-death is good thing to add...how could you be so retarded as to risk your character and get grouped up with a bunch or crappy players for dungeons/primals >.>

[MrDiezel]

That actually looks pretty cool, I'll give it a go.

RO is a staple in the MMO universe. One of the first greats. Still a great game, but if you play it expect a big learning curve. The game has been adding content for a long time now, and a whole lot of aspects to the game will be different depending on what server you decide to play on. If you do play, you should have an amazing time.

[Asiaine]

Anyway, Time sinks are needed in MMO or it would die too fast. FFXIV ARR has time sinks, but in a different way.

The hallmark of a successful MMORPG is a Time Sink that is fun. That we want to keep doing.
-- Repeating content over and over, being bored about it, is a time sink but NOT fun.
-- Doing great content once, is fun but not a time sink.

We need content we ENJOY repeating, and therefore do not mind repeating it over and over, as each time is just as fun as the first. This can often be done by having content that is dynamic and random and unexpected, but only enough to be fun without being annoying.

It's not easy. But whoever pulls it off wins.

[Meshico]

Some posts/reply's were a little out in right field but for the most part in General I believe this should be a reality.

I just wonder how hard it would be to implement.

If people want hardcore, and there are hardcore people out there...by all means TimeSink/waste/have fun

I would love to be a fly on that wall, could you imagine how much fun the hard core people would have? They already isolate themselves as it is, and the "cock fights" would be pretty amazing to witness.

But seriously this thread/post has some value. But "Servers" LOL no more like "server".

[XiaoliVorgan]

This would be a good idea, minus the left field items like taking away teleportation etc. I wouldn't be on the hardcore server and ya know what.. I don't think many "hardcores" would be there either. Half of their fun is being on regular server, complaining about "casuals" being able to at some point obtain the same items they have therefore destroying their snowflake mode. Also.. they couldn't be a snowflake on a hardcore server, cause all the other hardcores would be the same doing the same thing. It would be madness and chaos for those players. All 254 of them.

[Fayto]

When i say 1.0 i mean the one that is not ARR. Its like people here says 2.2, they usually confine it as 2.0.

Its 1.0 vs 2.0 lol.. and 1.23 is part of 1.0 so to speak.

No dude, 1.0 and 1.23 are vastly different games. For starters, 1.23 is actually good.