Possible level/story jumps....really?

[Theodric]

So it begins.

Level skip potion for 19.99$ a pop, soon in Mogstaion™ near you!

I guess it would explain why the latest Live Letter had such a heavy focus on advertising things that can be purchased for real world money...as well as the increasing frequency of new items going up on the Mog Station.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

I wouldn't mind if they made all the dungeons free from the storyline and just tied them to side quests up to level 50.

[Khemorex]

Yoshi , pls dont make another WoW out from FFXIV thank you :P

[Syhrwyb]

This is good news to me, might actually have the chance to play on others servers and make more friends. I'm already caught up with content on one character, why should I have to do crap all over again on a fresh alt? Huge pain in the arse. Really hope they go through with this.

[Seraphix2407]

This is good news to me, might actually have the chance to play on others servers and make more friends. I'm already caught up with content on one character, why should I have to do crap all over again on a fresh alt? Huge pain in the arse. Really hope they go through with this.

Well I could understand if this game has a Wow or blade and soul system where it's only 1 class/job per character. I see you wrote you want to make more friends on different servers which is fine. But remember it's a choice to make a new character and go through all that shit too . Not like people force you to make a new character each time you to make friends, if you are unhappy on your own server transfer and try make new friends. I'm sorry I sound harsh but this is an option not somethign forced upon you .

Yoshi , pls dont make another WoW out from FFXIV thank you :P

This game already has a lot of WoW elements, I never really played it but from what I heard SMN in this game is like a raw copy of the warlock from Wow.

[CuteWhisper]

Nope, I am totally against this. This is not WoW.

[Fawkes]

It's more acceptable for WoW to do that because it's like 12 years old. FFXIV shouldn't already be jumping to something like that. Right now they should only be doing things like reducing the total exp required to level from 1-50, and possibly cutting out some bits of the story quests, like if they could turn some of the delivery nonsense or hide and seek into sidequests that aren't part of the story progression.

[ChocoFeru]

I don't really care if they put the potion stuff.

I mean, it doesn't affect me, just as it doesn't affect me if people skips all the Lore. What's the difference? They'll get boosted to lv60 probably,and they should still have to level all the rest.

If that encourages new players to actually play, then I'm ok with it.

I do main scenario story because I enjoy it. If somebody wants to pay to skip the RPG part of this MMORPG, then it's not my problem but his!

[Theodric]

I don't really care if they put the potion stuff.

I mean, it doesn't affect me, just as it doesn't affect me if people skips all the Lore. What's the difference? They'll get boosted to lv60 probably,and they should still have to level all the rest.

If that encourages new players to actually play, then I'm ok with it.

I do main scenario story because I enjoy it. If somebody wants to pay to skip the RPG part of this MMORPG, then it's not my problem but his!

Many people said the exact same thing back in WoW. That it wouldn't affect them. Then as time passed more and more aspects of the game were gutted - including the story - to appease the growing number of players that cared only for instant gratification and content that was new and flashy.

I really, really don't want FFXIV to turn into WoW. I left that game for a reason - multiple reasons, in fact. I have little doubt that I'm not alone in that regard.

[ChocoFeru]

Many people said the exact same thing back in WoW. That it wouldn't affect them. Then as time passed more and more aspects of the game were gutted - including the story - to appease the growing number of players that cared only for instant gratification and content that was new and flashy.

I really, really don't want FFXIV to turn into WoW. I left that game for a reason - multiple reasons, in fact. I have little doubt that I'm not alone in that regard.

Yes, I understand that feel about WoW! But there's people that didn't care about the Lore since lvl1 and skipped every single cutscene and text. That kind of player will always exist.

If they implement this here in FFXIV, it will be quite different than WoW because they'll only get one job boosted to lvl60(?), and the rest will be still lvl1. The only boost will be that they'll be able to play with old players as soon as they log into the new expansion, so they won't feel alone/bored grinding a content they don't really care about anyways, so for Square-Enix is a win-win because they get new players and they pay for the boost, and we should be happier if there are more players around because that means more content/quality, I don't want FFXIV to die!


Imagine being a new player at 4.0 and you want to play with your friends. You've gotta run by A LOT of content, taking you over a month if you play 40+ hours a week. In WoW it's easier because the Lore part is near unexistent, because Lore in WoW is just optional and you don't have to do long missions or watch long cutscenes.

On the other side, I can understand you being worried about the quality of the new boosted players, but I think FFXIV is quite different.