Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

[Pence]

In my opinion, PL'ing this way should be removed. Soon the population will be like XI is now...Abyssea/Astral burnt 75/95's not knowing how to play their jobs all wanting rewards for counting to 3.

[Aerycat]

Yes, Yoshi-P should in fact consider the learning curve one needs to go through to earn their rewards. Not being spoon fed by high level friends.

UNLESS he considers putting a BIG ICON on the players showing "I am a Powerlevelled player! (I have high level friends - you have not!)"

Ppl are proud to be Level 75 in FFXI back in the earlier days, simply standing in town as a higher level shows how much you've gone through.... but going on like this it's no longer 'special' to be high level. Diminishes the sense of pride in being at higher levels.

[Issac]

I'll ask again, can we please get a rep response? I understand you guys are busy, and that this is a touchy subject that might carry some negative PR, but it's a pressing matter.

Thank you.

[Travesty]

Seconded. A change this drastic that generates one of the most popular/controversial threads on the boards should be addressed pretty quickly.

[Nanaya]

I do find it odd we've got 34 pages with nary a sound from any official source.

A simple, "Yes, we want Casual Fantasy XIV, deal with it", or "Oh shit, we screwed up, we'll fix it" would shut all of us up.

Because at this point, there is literally no way they haven't seen this thread.

[Zenaku]

I do find it odd we've got 34 pages with nary a sound from any official source.

A simple, "Yes, we want Casual Fantasy XIV, deal with it", or "Oh shit, we screwed up, we'll fix it" would shut all of us up.

Because at this point, there is literally no way they haven't seen this thread.

It's Saturday the dev team does not work today, hoping to keep it alive enough for them to answer. If they say yes that how we plan it then i guess maybe with this enough likes they can change it and understand how we feel about the issue.

There other way of doing this powerlevel by a healer at least they still working for it. Or exp ring,link account and many other stuff they can do so you can catch up your friend and they still work for it. Before 1.19 it was easy to get 1-50 so i don't how this is a issue you should not allow this type of party play.

[Travesty]

It's Saturday the dev team does not work today, hoping to keep it alive enough for them to answer. If they say yes that how we plan it then i guess maybe with this enough likes they can change it and understand how we feel about the issue.

There other way of doing this powerlevel by a healer at least they still working for it. Or exp ring,link account and many other stuff they can do so you can catch up your friend and they still work for it. Before 1.19 it was easy to get 1-50 so i don't how this is a issue you should not allow this type of party play.

Or a level-sync-like mechanic, which is what they SHOULD do if they want higher level people to be able to play with new lower level people.

[Zenaku]

Or a level-sync-like mechanic, which is what they SHOULD do if they want higher level people to be able to play with new lower level people.

Ahh i never thought about that i did say something like this would happen and a level sync would fix that issue but i got troll on and say to shut up. I happy now people are agreeing that this should be taken off or fix with level sync.

[Blarp]

Or a level-sync-like mechanic, which is what they SHOULD do if they want higher level people to be able to play with new lower level people.

"Different for the sake of being different and ignoring nearly a decade of experience in developing and maintaining an MMO."

^ Motto of SE.

No, but seriously, this is a problem (not Pl'ing, people being able to play with lower level buddies) they faced and dealt with in FFXI years ago, and it was solved by level sync. Wasn't that Yoshi's response anyways? He wanted friends to be able to play together? On the other hand, we know from XI that they don't necessarily mind people getting to level cap in a week anymore. So much for "hardcore."

[Missionman]

this is the stupidest SE have ever done to ffxiv. faster lvling and game die faster. ppl will get to all 50 in no time in this rate. and then they all go for end game stuff... but we don't have that much end game content yet, and i don't think dev team can release end game content fast enough to hold ppl in this game(they don't have much to do,after they done all the end game stuff)

enjoy the fast lvling atm guys. and after that soon we can find another game to play.