Quote Originally Posted by VydarrTyr View Post
Oh, well, that definitely changes things. You have expressed disdain for people who waste their time playing videogames by posting a wall of text on an internet forum about a videogame. No, wait. I guess my point still stands.
This is inaccurate. I disdain those who are addicted - people who, as someone stated earlier in this thread, 'never miss a leve.' Obviously, I've put a lot of time into this game as well; what you wrote doesn't reflect the point I was making.

I also would hardly call that a 'wall' of text. It took less than 5 minutes to write. You should see the stuff I really care about...

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Well, that's a fancy little bit of wordplay. I like how you called it "changing the rate at which leves accrue" rather than "reducing the rate at which leves accrue." Super tricky, that. Do you work in politics?
You're actually factually incorrect. The truth is, the new system ALLOWS for the accrual of leves. The old system did not allow for the accrual of leves. You had a set number of leves to do within a set time, and if you don't use them - they disappear. You don't get credit for leves you didn't do. They DIDN'T accrue at all, but instead were available within a certain window. If you logged on at the wrong moments, you could be really screwed by this in terms of the number of leves you can do at any one time.

The new system is infinitely superior, in that you will be able to save leves up. Miss a few days? No problem for your char, when you do log back on, you will have as many leves available as you would have done during all those days! This is a feature, not a bug.

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So you can't complete 16 leves every 36 hours. In other words, what I said was correct.
Not can't but don't, due to the wide variety of awesome activities in RL that I also participate in. But now, I'll be on the same playing field as those of you who have none of those! Success, SE!

Are you just disagreeing with everything I say to be disagreeable?
No, I disagree with things you say because they are factually wrong, and I don't like that.

In order for this game to succeed, FFXIV is going to need to appeal to both the casual and hardcore gamers. While you may have disdain for people who play more than a few hours a week, SE needs to appeal to those players, too. And offering more content is only going to help the game by increasing the options available to everyone. Including you.
The new leve system DOES increase the options available to everyone. You just don't seem to be able to see that. You'll catch on quick enough once it's in place though; the first time you bang out 20 crafting leves in a day you'll see what I mean.

Egad. That's the whole point. "Content" that you can't do is useless.
You're absolutely correct. 'Content' which expires on an arbitrary time limit is indeed useless. Content which persists, that I can do whenever I want - that's useful.

Besides, since when do people really like leves? Leves suck. It's a convenient way to get SP and a little cash and that's it. Not a substitute for proper and enduring quest lines. The game shouldn't be focused around them and anything that they do to move that focus even farther away is a plus in my book.