Staggering Alexander Unlocks After Launch

[Zumi]

If all you want to do is raid, stay away for another two weeks. Go ahead. Come back the day Alexander is released, try to level to 60 and get the gear you need then. And watch those who took the time to prepare properly push harder and faster than you can.

Only you can't get gear because no new tomestones from dungeons till the 2 weeks are up according to the interview tomestones are locked out too not just the raid. This will be like get level 60 then have whatever crap set you got when leveling till new tomestones and the raid become available.

Most people will just take this time to cap all their jobs to 60 and new jobs and crafts. If its anything like FFXI when they rasied the cap after 75 I got like 5 jobs to the new cap a day.

Oh and I watch all the cuteness and it sure doesn't take me 2 weeks to do that. Half my raid group doesn't watch them and they are done with the patches usually in 30 min to an hour if there is a dungeon.

[PArcher]

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Except you're can't buy anything other than an accessory week 1 anyway, so what do tomes really matter week 1? They're not going to make or break a run for a few weeks.

It's the preparation getting to lv60 and getting the best lv60 gear, learning the new skills/rotations and that sort that's what this is for

[Felis]

Only you can't get gear because no new tomestones from dungeons till the 2 weeks are up according to the interview tomestones are locked out too not just the raid. This will be like get level 60 then have whatever crap set you got when leveling till new tomestones and the raid become available.

No tomestone gear was involved in FCoB first clear.
And i'm sure level 60 crafted gear is not locked out during the first 2 weeks.

[abzoluut]

I love this decision. Takes away the pain a tiny, little bit of choosing DRK over SAM *sniff*.

[Zumi]

The thing about the game is there are no leader boards for raids and you do them with a group in an instance you don't see other players doing them. This isn't like FFXI where you have competition and have to camp HNM vs the whole server. Maybe the top 3 groups get recognized by Yoshi P in a letter from the producer. You pretty much go at your own pace and go when you are ready. I don't get this whole being rushed to do endgame. Its pve content it really isn't a competition. Unless your group really wants to get that shout out from Yoshi P for getting in the first 3 kills most other do not really care they just want to do the content when they want to do it which for some is on the first day of the expansion.

[Jamein]

Honestly, I'm glad.
Forget the world first clears and fairness the point is they have LOCKOUTS.
I don't want to have to make a choice of either getting my current class to 60 asap and get my alexander loot lockout/tome cap for the week or trying out one of the new classes. I want to switch from pally to DK, so if I have to go 1-60 as well as get an alexander drop/cap tomes it'll be a pain. People will skip stuff just so they can do all of that.

People are right, it is a choice, but you're going to have to level/check out new areas/flying mounts/airships/new dungeons to play with for a couple of weeks (2 weeks for early access 1 week for normal access I imagine) then you get the rest, I understand some people want alexander right away, but jesus christ in a week or two when you have boatload of other content to do is it actually worth complaining about?

[razzgrizz3]

i never liked this sort of aproach. who do you think you are to tell my how i consume the content i bought?
if its not ready for launch then just say so.

[Snugglebutt]

i never liked this sort of aproach. who do you think you are to tell my how i consume the content i bought?
if its not ready for launch then just say so.

They are the ones who designed the game, the rules of it and how the game works. You are the one who buys it or does not based on what they tell you it will contain and how it will work. If you bought it (which I imagine would be pretty hard to do given the expansion is not even out yet) based of your assumption about it working differently then that is your fault not theirs. You might as well have said how dare they tell me I am not allowed to buy gil from RMT without the risk of being banned. Their game, their rules...your choice to buy or not, subscribe or not based on the information provided between now and release.

They have given you more than enough warning about how this aspect within the expansion will work aka there will be a two week lock out, so buy it or don't buy it when it comes out but do not buy it and then make silly statements like have done regarding what right they have over the design of the content in the game they are making. They have every right to make the expansion how they want, you have the right to not buy it if do not like how it is made or how it works, even after it is released you have the right to cancel your subscription if takes a turn down a path you do not like.

[Karen_Cerfrumos]

i never liked this sort of aproach. who do you think you are to tell my how i consume the content i bought?
if its not ready for launch then just say so.

It's to avoid putting pressure on players who might want to enjoy the content at their own pace but feel unable to due to the pressure from their static / FC / perceived competition. Like it or not, the game is multiplayer.

[Alistaire]

i never liked this sort of aproach. who do you think you are to tell my how i consume the content i bought?
if its not ready for launch then just say so.

tbh I'm hoping this is the real reason; at least if that's true we won't necessarily expect it to repeat in subsequent expansions.