My only Issue with Heavensward

[Madruck]

I will keep this simple and straight to the point.....I sincerely wished there were no caps on anything in game. I sincerely wish that content and gear were driven solely by effort even if some people would max out in gear within days. If those people unsubbed for months until new content came out.....so be it. I do not play FF14 to conquer new content within the first day which is a small part of the game. I play for the ambiance, music, environment and above all else in a MMO....community. I will still play FF14 even if I do not agree on this one game design because I do not like to quit.....but it still doesnt make me enjoy them limiting what one player can do based solely on retaining subscriptions or preventing a group of players beating content from day one. If people want to play that way.....let them, they pay for it so they should be able to play in that method if they so choose. I am a casual to a progressive type of player....please SE, stop limiting players of they can accomplish in game to retain numbers.....create content which you have thus far that keeps people coming back to the game not because of being forced to do some daily or required weekly run...but because of the quality we have all seen you put out with Heavensward.

(Edit)To all the people who are going to be negative for me posting my opinion...please don't. I already know a few are going to say its fine the way it is, or that maybe FF14 is not for me, or something around those lines. I understand what your saying even before you type it out.....but please save time for both of us and only post if its something other than those reasons.

[TheCurls]

If those people unsubbed for months until new content came out.....so be it.

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To all the people...

So, basically someone has to agree with you to post here or it's not worth your time?

To address the first part I quoted, this is exactly why they gate it. Imagine you are the one making money off the game. Would you rather people pay subs to, you know, pay -you-? Or would you be fine with not making any money off someone and say "Well at least they razed it to the ground before they left. They put a lot of effort into doing it all so it's fair and now they got to do it all and don't have to pay me."?

[Shadray]

I'm not a huge fan of the tomes system, I'd much prefer getting entry lvl gear from them (like how law worked) and then more, longer, harder raids to get drops from.

Just having Alex to work seems a little thin,

[Ageofwar]

To OP, you are just asking for negative reactions by just posting this in the first place.

so... if i am reading correctly you would like no caps in the game with 15 min queue or less for DPS on DF and quality content? <- this is a pipe dream

The content takes time to create and test
To keep the queue down SE need people to be playing the content so... if a large part of the player base gets all there drops for a set batch of content in the 1st week then on week 2 the queue on DF goes from 15 min to 1hr making the content unplayable to the rest of the player base
SE solution to this to slow peoples progress though the content.

[AdamFyi]

Of note, I found this little gem;

I have no desire to go into Alex Savage anytime soon since once I do complete it....what else do I have to do for 3 months til 3.1....nothing but do the exact same fight over and over again for weeks, to me thats boring but for some that works. Enjoy the game for what it is....stop complaining about the Esoterics cap.

[OMEGA_HACK]

I think the fix they need without messing with their setup is that they should do job specific tomes that have a cap based on the current job instead of the account. This is a game where you can be many different things on a whim--more or less--however they limit that ability with tome caps. Because if you want to have a DPS and a healer class leveled, just to get Eso weapons for them you will have to spend 5 weeks. Legs and Body pieces that is another 4 weeks, by this time we have moved on to the next big patch and new, better gear is obtainable.


That is the problem with the game. It promotes "you can do anything" but then crutches you when you want to hold them up to that offer. The problem they run into is that if they just uncap everything then people will clear the content in a matter of days and unsub their accounts until the next big update. So how do they fix it to be true to their promise while making sure they can capitalize on subscriptions? A simple solution would be merely to add qualifiers to the Tomestones. For Example:

Esoteric Tomestones of Combat
Esoteric Tomestones of Fending
Esoteric Tomestones of Healing
Esoteric Tomestones of Magic

Law Tomestones of Combat
Law Tomestones of Fending
Law Tomestones of Healing
Law Tomestones of Magic

Depending on which job you are set depends on the type of the Tomestone you get. If they really wanted they could get into even more detail and base the Tomestone type on the current job and have one for each. From a logical standpoint it would make sense since a tome is something that contains information, the stone merely states the tome is on a slab or slabs of stone instead of paper. So basically it would translate to: "Stone slabs containing information based on the Laws of Magic" or "Stone slabs containing information based on the Esoterics of Combat". Makes sense to me and would ease the restrictions while keeping people playing. The only problem that I would foresee is the comment "It would create too much strain on the servers"--a somewhat BS response in this particular setup but I feel its one that would be used.

[SecretCrowds]

I knew the name sounded familiar. You are that doomsday poster. Nearly all of your posts are how FF14 is dying and how every single aspect of the game sucked and you are leaving and never coming back.

And judging from what someone else linked, you asked others not to complain about eso cap in another thread, and yet here you are doing the opposite.

Do you really like to stir up drama so much?

Example of some posts.

"Time to move on since Square Enix does not listen to its Constituents"
"FF14's path hauntly similar to SWTOR"
"Reading the post on the forums for 3 months shows that FF14 is dying steadily!"
and all those atma threads.

[AdamFyi]

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Firstly, Law tomes are not restricted by a weekly cap, so you can collect them at your leisure. Completing the Daily Roulettes will also net you a ton of Law tomes, if you can't be bothered with the dungeon grind. You are also not forced to do it either. Secondly, there is no reason to have multiple tomes with similar functions all dropping at once. If they did implement this, tomes would have to be placed in separate drop pools. For example, two are placed in Neverreap, and the other two are placed in the Fractal Continuum. My mistake aside, there really isn't much of a reason to having multiple tomes.

As it is, a full set of Law gear is enough for current non-hardcore content. So, let me ask you this; why the rush?

[Madruck]

There were no caps for atmas, but you rage quit over it.

And all those doomsday threads you made, yet you still came back.

It amazing Chihaya....after almost 18 months since patch 2.2 you still are that sad person to have to kick a dead horse huh. Thank you for the continued trolling post over the past 18 months.....I sincerely do appreciate them (Sarcasm).

[Madruck]

Of note, I found this little gem;

So Adam, since you would like to pick a exact sentence from my post except show the whole thing I will be happy to post it here since you clearly like to place things out of context.

I find it very funny that so many people are in a rush to down Alex Savage as fast as possible with it being out less than 2 days....seriously. If you clearly look at the design in which SE and YoshiP are taking with FF14......Savage is clearly designed to appease the Hardcore players in the game while normal is for casuals and progressives. Noone to my knowledge has cleared A3 yet and I hope that noone does for a while. I respect any hardcore raiding FC who does these things and thats what drives them and if you are in one of these FCs.....good for you. I am a mixture of a casual to a progressive player myself....I have no desire to go into Alex Savage anytime soon since once I do complete it....what else do I have to do for 3 months til 3.1....nothing but do the exact same fight over and over again for weeks, to me thats boring but for some that works. Enjoy the game for what it is....stop complaining about the Esoterics cap....stop complaining on trying to get SE to nerf the DPS needed if your not that good at the job you are on or go play something else. This is by far the best MMORPG on the market today and if its not good enough for you.....I do not know what would be.