Mr. Producer... You make me a sad panda :(

[MookiesPM75]

Virtually all forms of exp have been nerfed to a ridiculous degree. And I find your letter to us hypocritical at best, quoted directly:

"The Future of Ranking Up
Ever since I posted on the forums, we’ve been receiving feedback from players worrying about whether or not we’re going to be nerfing the ranking up process. The simple and emphatic answer to this, just as I posted in the forums, is no."

Hippocracy at its finest, as you of course did not INCREASE the till next levels, you however lowered the xp received from quests, mobs, behest, and leve's to such a degree that you essentially doubled or tripled the TNL's without actually changing them.

I want to be very straight with you Mr. Producer sir. You cannot make such a progressive move such as adding auto attack in, then take 20 steps backwards by making it so horrible to level up people will quickly lose patience with the game.

I for one doubt I will be playing this game any longer. My friends are attempting to drag me up in the ranks, as soloing only yields 70-120 skill per mob that I can effectively kill... but I don't know if this game is worth the effort. Especially when you continue in your predecessors footsteps and make unwarranted changes that only make the game less desirable to play.

With the economical downturn, and your obvious lack of ability to move this game in the right direction... I do not see much of a future for FF14.

[Anviar]

All I can say is...exactly right. I stopped playing this game for months after release because of how terrible it was, then when I saw what 1.18 had in store I started up again thinking they were finally instituting changes drastic enough to improve the gameplay. But no, the auto attack is a disappointment, party search is essentially unusable, and the ranking up is so slow it's unbearable.

[Jabo]

Leveling Up took 5-6times longer with the old developing team.
One of the first things that happened with the new team was to double the EXP you got.

Also you are forgetting that we got rid of surplus. Even with surplus people could easily get to Rank 50 within few week.
That can't be the ideal.

It's really astonishing to see how much people tend to whine, if they get something taken away from them.
Even if it makes perfect sense.

[MookiesPM75]

Leveling Up took 5-6times longer with the old developing team.
One of the first things that happened with the new team was to double the EXP you got.

Also you are forgetting that we got rid of surplus. Even with surplus people could easily get to Rank 50 within few week.
That can't be the ideal.

It's really astonishing to see how much people tend to whine, if they get something taken away from them.
Even if it makes perfect sense.

Moving backwards is not the best idea, especially considering the state the game released in.

And I would like to point out, in this game you cannot simply level one class to 50 and be done. You have to level virtually every class in order to be an effective dd/soloer/tank.

@people leveling quickly before: there were several broken ways that people were able to get xp beforehand, which no doubt you are mistakenly referring to. Such as skill up alliances and leve-link parties pre-nerf. Also the mechanics of ranking up were quite different at launch and were too rng based. The new team did not double the xp, they simply removed the idiotic rng based rank up system.

You really don't bring any valid points to the table, and you end your post with a rude comment which even further degrades it's worth.

[Zenaku]

Leveling Up took 5-6times longer with the old developing team.
One of the first things that happened with the new team was to double the EXP you got.

Also you are forgetting that we got rid of surplus. Even with surplus people could easily get to Rank 50 within few week.
That can't be the ideal.

It's really astonishing to see how much people tend to whine, if they get something taken away from them.
Even if it makes perfect sense.

only a few people got kick from Dev or left themself everyone else is still the same people beside the yoshi-p and a few key people in the dev.

[Anviar]

Actually the whole point is that it's not even fun. It's become a boring, repetitive, time-costly chore to rank up. Prior to the patch I was getting a decent amount of xp from leve's. Mind you it's still essentially grinding, and it's fairly slow, but it was challenging and quick enough not to be painful. That's not the case anymore; doesn't matter what the old development team did, the fact of the matter is it's just ineffective as it stands now. Not even bringing into the discussion the party search function, which makes everything even more unbearable.

[SydeBeheln]

people...people... It's because your playing a game, that is not yet complete... More like a beta. You are all complaining about a lack of content for SP. If you read the old dev. notes and what not, he talks about content we don't have yet for party based play.

[Pitri]

people...people... It's because your playing a game, that is not yet complete... More like a beta. You are all complaining about a lack of content for SP. If you read the old dev. notes and what not, he talks about content we don't have yet for party based play.

But this isnt a beta.

[MattyWS]

Did you forget? You're a test subject. The game isn't 'going backwards' because it's not really released yet. SE see the PS3 release as the official one, until then you're playing a beta.