Possible level/story jumps....really?

[mirta000]

Lacking meaningful content. Interesting ideas, but they won't last for more than a week. The content we get is literally something we do for like a week and then are like "K. That's boring. Now what?" Palace of the Dead is literally going to be a Glamour reward(will probably be sellable and thus killing off a playerbase of actually running the thing in the first place). Meanwhile we get maybe another dungeon or two, more tome caps, more gear to be bought with tomes, etc. The endless hamster wheel we've been on since 2.0.

The thing is, if you're going to critique everything they make, it would be nice if you would suggest what they could make instead. Because while I understand the complaint, I can not point a finger at an MMO that does anything better or different. As for Palace of The Dead, I think I would run it without the reward. It reminds me of GW2's fractals and honestly I would love to relive something similar here

[Ephemeral_Nights]

I'll keep this short, but sweet. I started a new alt some time ago and without no lifeing it I was able to hit 60 + finish msq up to its current point within a week and a half to two weeks. Just get rid of the msq restrictions for content and we're set, this level jump item or whatever is unnecessary. Heck, leave that kinda stuff with ftp games.

[Niqote]

Level jumping items on Mogstation would really be pressing into the territory of pay to win.

And that is unacceptable.

I think mostly its people fearing an increase of players with less skill though, leveling is already pretty fast. Why do you even need to skip the stages of the game that literally teach you all the small fundamental rules of Eorzea?

[Voltyblast]

The thing is, if you're going to critique everything they make, it would be nice if you would suggest what they could make instead. Because while I understand the complaint, I can not point a finger at an MMO that does anything better or different. As for Palace of The Dead, I think I would run it without the reward. It reminds me of GW2's fractals and honestly I would love to relive something similar here

Make old content still relevant, and by relevant I mean "add rewards". For the exception of the EX primals, everything else basically grants no lasting rewards - if you don't count glamours.
What about giving us the possibility of doing dungeons under a time limit, or giving titles or glamour stuff for doing a dungeon in a certain way? These are just 2 of the things that would help IMMENSIVELY to keep content up.

Infact this is one aspect of WoW that I do enjoy since that old content, while outdated in terms of challenge, is still doable for getting rewards. Do something like that for FFXIV and I can assure you that more people will run old dungeons.

Yes imagine people running AV and starting to say "Guys, let's try doing it under the time limit" or "let's do the first boss without taking fruits" and so on. It would be a lot of fun and I'm actually against achievements!

PS: sorry for offtopic, but I'm also one of those who is bored of the lack of content going on.

[Nep_Nep]

I hope they reconsider this. I think this is the one thing from the Chinese mogstation we DON'T want.
Can't they just cut out some of the filler mainstory quests?

[mandodo69]

Nope. Pay 2 Win. Everyone playing right now will leave. No shit. Don't do it.

[Fynlar]

A lot of people are citing XI as "the right way to do it", but seriously, the same complaints existed back then. When CoP launched, one of the big arguments was that you had to be mid-level to enjoy the new content. ToAU really didn't offer you anything if you were sub-50s either. And considering what leveling was like in XI, it's probably easier to get to Lv. 50 in XIV than it was to get to Lv. 30 in XI (especially if you were a DPS).

I've never heard these complaints, to be honest. And if they were there, they are nowhere NEAR the level of "why can't I unlock DRK yet" complaints I hear about for this game.

Also, needing level for content isn't really a big deal to most people because it's expected. Many of the new areas could still be accessed, and only level 30 was needed for any of the jobs. Many of them didn't even require fighting anything (Samurai and Ninja were a couple of notable exceptions, but they learned from that -- to the point where even the two new jobs in Adoulin, an expansion designed entirely for level 99s, had no fights involved to unlock and could therefore still be unlocked at 30)

[Rysir]

Getting a story bump to about the level 30 area? Sure maybe and thats a big maybe. Full story auto complete? Why bother playing the game at all then?

And level boosting? What point is there in that? As a new player you would have no money and still have to progress through old dungeons to gear up so at best you could only be able to initiate a bunch of level 50-60-70 side quests but not be able to do them till you gear hunt and you would be clueless on how to tackle certain dungeons. So that is a definite no.

[Marcellus_Cassius]

I'm all for it, why does it bother you? Cause now someone can play endgame faster than it took you? Doesn't bother me, the more people we have the better, and if that means somebody's friend needs a ride here and there so they can enjoy the game together then so be it.

[Rysir]

I'm all for it, why does it bother you? Cause now someone can play endgame faster than it took you? Doesn't bother me, the more people we have the better, and if that means somebody's friend needs a ride here and there so they can enjoy the game together then so be it.

It would bother me because it adds people fresh out the gate who literally have no idea what they are doing to the upper areas of the game when its bad enough when there are people who have played for a year(s) and still dont know how to play and everyone knows just how fun that is.

And Im sure that if someone payed to have the game level for them and auto complete the story that same person would moan for an item to complete raids for them as well.

If you ran into someone who bought a story complete, all jobs 60 account and never played before this story skip and level skip item would be exactly like that with the exception of being fully geared.