Poll : Should FF14 allow purchasable “leveling potion” ? Please vote!

[Istaru]

My opinion is no to the leveling portion. No caveats, plain, simple, no. Not now,not ever. It is already easy as pie to level. The real issue atm, is the access to endgame runs through Ishgard, which requires a completion of like 3,455,654 quests. Many of which are nothing more than time killers. I have mixed feelings on a cash shop item to bypass the 2.0 MSQ entirely. I can understand how annoying it could be for someone to slog through all of them. I have done it more than once myself. It doesn't even need to be a cash shop item, just change it so that you can enter Ishgard from CCH. But bypass everything and have a max level character is simply more than I can accept.

[DarkRider7th]

Voted 3 & 4. I do not believe that leveling potions is the answer.

The majority of complaints I have personally seen in game from brand new players and older ones creating alts is MSQ is too long, or they can't access the new classes right off the bat. Recently I had started alt characters out of boredom/wanting to see 2.0 story again and wow.... I forgotten how much fluff quests there was x.x. There is quite a bit that needs condensed, quest lines that would be better taken out and made as sidequests (so you would have the option to see the storyline + xp).


Boosting people to high levels will only cause a greater gap in skilled players. I understand it would be nice for experienced players making alts but for new ones? Heck no, they should go through the game naturally so they can learn better. I know this already doesn't prevent bad players, but giving them a bypass will only increase those types of players dramatically.

[Fumbi]

Give them the level boost, but make sure they can't join any dungeons/raids without going to a very special tutorial. Cause I'm sure as hell not going to party up with someone who knows knowing about their class. I got enough button pressing as it is with playing Ninja you think I'm fixing to hold someone else hand because they decided to go the easy route?

[ShinMetsu]

Personally i enjoy the leveling part of MMOs the most, experiencing and exploring the vast world for the first time has always been something magical to me.

I do think they could add a way to earn a bit more experience though, as you'll have to grind a little at some points in the story as it is, but not with purchasable leveling potions.
They have EXP boost manuals for Gathering and Crafting at the Grand Companies, they could easily add a Battle class EXP manual.

[bass9020]

Lol everyone in this game just has to be a special snowflake

Are you going to add any substance to the threads you keep trolling?

[Chronons]

OH SWEET HYDAELYN WHY!?!??

I cannot imagine having to carry someone through content who had used a potion to get to level 60. I might smash my controller with my face. Healers spamming "Cure II" like its their first time in Brayflox. Tanks marking mobs as 1, 2, 3 and using the aggro combo only. DPS spamming the same combo, over and over and over. Just no, please no. As it stand now the leveling process works to indoctrine players with at least some level of sense into how they play (from story requirements like job quests or other players).

Besides this is a subscription based game, ie. the more time you spend playing it the more money they make off of you. Adding a feature that cut down on subscription charges would fly in the face of their business model. I don't see that as very likely.

[Doki]

The game already has multiple +exp % earned items to the point you can level to 35 in a few hours, and then FATE grind to 60 over several more. At that point you've already got tons people at max level with zero idea how to properly play their class. Adding a potion won't change anything really, and will line SE's pockets with some more seed money for FFXVI, or another cell phone game.

[RaizeGraymalkin]

Really don't understand people voting no. It's not gonna change a thing and would be fantastic for leveling alternate classes.

All I see is exaggerating "omg it's gonna be so turrible with teh newbz". People already exaggerate how bad DF actually is. A lot of people just FATE grind as it is. I will repeat this, like a broken record. Bad players will be bad and good players will be good. Period. There is ZERO reason to not have one at this point. Leveling isn't fun and it's a chore. The real game doesn't start til max level. Who wants to play a 50-100 hour tutorial? I sure as hell don't.

[Fumbi]

Really don't understand people voting no. It's not gonna change a thing and would be fantastic for leveling alternate classes.

All I see is exaggerating "omg it's gonna be so turrible with teh newbz". People already exaggerate how bad DF actually is. A lot of people just FATE grind as it is. I will repeat this, like a broken record. Bad players will be bad and good players will be good. Period. There is ZERO reason to not have one at this point. Leveling isn't fun and it's a chore. The real game doesn't start til max level. Who wants to play a 50-100 hour tutorial? I sure as hell don't.

Problem is no one wants to be matched up with someone in a raid/dungeon/hiest if they have no clue how to play the game.

[Kosmos992k]

Problem is no one wants to be matched up with someone in a raid/dungeon/hiest if they have no clue how to play the game.

And so say we all...