Power Leveling is an flaw and decreses the personal value of a Max level character.

[KenJammin]

They're are a lot of power leveling complaint threads, and i could post in there but personally i feel as though its such a major issue that they're can not be enough threads regarding the issue.

The worth of a max level character is a prime motivator for the experience grind, without an experience grind MMO's have little in the way of long term gaming. The easier it is for other people to gain access to a max level character diminishes the value of achieving a max level character. MMO's meet with little success if they're are no long term goals to be met and rewards that are disproportionate to the amount of time that needs to be investment.

The concept of power-leveling has been addressed as old as games such as Ultima Online, Ragnarok Online, and Everquest to name a few. The delusion that how other players choose to play the game has no bearing on me is a fallacious idea. The same way as letting other players bot and manipulate the economy (I cannot compete against a 24 hour gaming machine in an online game economy) is a flaw. Letting other players gain max level with 0 effort diminishes my characters worth.

I don't want to gain max level without effort but if i want to engage in endgame content I will not be able to compete with players who have access to all jobs at max level.

A large influx of max level characters makes it difficult for my traditional leveled characters to compete economically, access to higher level abilities, and equipment options. Other problems include, selling of high level characters for ingame and out of game money, poorly skilled end game players, limited number of people i can form groups with and meaningful connections with other players in a casual leveling scenario. And from a business standpoint short term monthly subscriptions.

I understand the concept of letting higher leveled players play with lower leveled players however they're are many solutions to this that have been used in other MMO's. A good idea would be to let max level players level synch with lower level players at the benefit of increased soul level experience.

I hope i succeeded in making my point clear, and that i've contributed to invalidating the argument that power leveled characters do not affect my online experience.

I trust that the development team will stand to reason on this issue, I hope they address it swiftly and quickly, however I am severely disappointed by the level of oversight this patch has demonstrated and on a personal note i urge Yoshi-P to continue to listen to the community and to be more critical of his personal ideologies.

[Gramul]

Another thread?
This couldn't have been said any any of the other ones?

[Zenaku]

Another thread?
This couldn't have been said any any of the other ones?

this is going to keep on to yoshi-p see that powerlevel is not the way to go and there other way of doing this and i hope people would keep doing it and change yoshi-p mind.

[NoctisUmbra]

tl:dr

Same cry, different thread.

[Denmo]

I agree with what you're saying, but there's already a thread for this discussion, and the GMs have been locking threads like this.

[Lavani]

These were fun the first few hundred, now it's just a sad, fail troll.

[DNO]

OMG OMG OMG OMG IMA SCREAM!!!
SE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE NERF GIMP OR FIX THIS PL ONLY BECAUSE IM SICK OF PEOPLE B*TCHING ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KenJammin]

I don't care, let SE lock it, how could they not expect a huge outcry, have they never played an MMO from the 1990's before? This problem was addressed years ago why can't SE build on generations of gaming instead of constantly trying to re-invent the wheel...

[Travesty]

I don't care, let SE lock it, how could they not expect a huge outcry

There are a lot of threads about this, but he does have a point with this quote lol. When you change your MMO from what it was before this patch, to one where you can hit the level cap in a day by doing mostly nothing but following someone else around.... there's bound to be some significant backlash lol.

[Corrderio]

There are a lot of threads about this, but he does have a point with this quote lol. When you change your MMO from what it was before this patch, to one where you can hit the level cap in a day by doing mostly nothing but following someone else around.... there's bound to be some significant backlash lol.

No offense, but the XIV community will bitch about pretty much anything and everything. Remember all the "OMFG ARC IS OP" and "OMFG CURE IS TOO MUCH MP" threads when 1.18 hit?