Quote Originally Posted by Neptune View Post
@OP, you should campaign for Loyalty Mode. I believe it includes a hardcore mode where getting your chocobo takes 10x longer and it toggles off everyone else's chocobo on your screen. You will just see them moving slowly past you as you walk around on the long chocobo quest.

For the benefit of those that might be misled by this statement, let me clarify:

I don't want you or me to have to undergo torture to get the Chocobo. All I want is for it to feel like it's really worth something. Don't you get a little bit annoyed when you go to Dzemael and see all other mages waiting to go in wearing exactly the same gear as you are, (assuming you're a mage?) and also when the item you were so psyched about, when the pieces dropped, all of a sudden feel run-of-the-mill? The attachment to gear, and the longing for it, have to do with facts other than just stats and looks.

I acknowledge the fact that probably we are just at the beginning of a long gear explosion, and soon there will be variety enough to dissipate the feeling that we are wearing uniforms. But I just wish the game allowed me time to covet something before it lands on my lap. Building up desire to be long-standing, and the subtle frustration of that long-standing desire has been the core principle of the art of seduction since the beginning of time. I think the problem with the game lies not in its difficulty mechanics. On the contrary... Dzemael itself is a proof of that. The problem is with the understanding of the psychological processes that determine stimulus, attachment, and emotional connection with a process or a place.

Our developers, like developers all over the world, are more concerned with obtaining their long-standing Holy Grail, the dream of all dreams, the WoW Killer, for them to be able to care about the dreams of their players, and about creating equally alluring Holy Grails within their games. Copy the formula, because the Market is Lord.

If you don't see what I am talking about, fair enough. You don't see it. But there is no need to get sarcastic and perhaps offensive just because we see different things. I don't want you punished because of my views, but by the same token, you shouldn't want me punished because of yours.

R