Let's Discuss: Weekly Limits

[Dragon_Sanders]

It's what you would call a necessary evil, there needs to be a cap or people would cap gear quickly and get bored, with the way this game works, regardless of who wants to admit it. it's a smart business decision, You want people to stay subbed as long as possible so you stretch it out, if there was no weekly cap, there is a good chance this game would have died already.

The only time there was no cap was when HW came out with the lore tomes, because the new level cap items were fresh, i assume they may do the same for SB. Maybe.

It's hard to say whether it's an "evil". If a game makes players feel it only friendly to hardcore, it'll also hurt the players.
As a working guy who will not be free until night on weekdays, I also hope there can be some cap. For the ones capable to play more, turning to some other sections when they reach the cap can also make the game not that boring.

[ACE135]

If you have all tomes you need within one month then many players probably would just wait till next patch and don't pay for the rest of the months before the patch. With the cap you need several months, so you pay for more months which is good for SE.

[Imoen]

If you have all tomes you need within one month then many players probably would just wait till next patch and don't pay for the rest of the months before the patch. With the cap you need several months, so you pay for more months which is good for SE.

people already do that lol.

[Lulu89]

people already do that lol.

Ya but not as many people do it, but if the cap was goon.. you'd see 10x more players quitting the game till the next patch sooner then l8tr = Even less money for SE = Less new patchs = less to do= less fixs =less players comeing back to the game after each patch= a dead game much sooner

You cant just take something away and pray just bce the players ask for it.. there need to be a way for them to remove it with out losing money at the same time, and make the players happy (lol not easy to do too).

Again iv said it be for it "The Lesser of two Evils" They know player don't like it but it must be done to keep the game moving and at the same time not make it feel like you have to do everything asap. Sure it a pain but it give you more time to help you guild or do other in game crap, but it all so give SE more time and money to make it better or easier for us.

[Iromi]

Folks on this forum have asked for this to change for a long time now..sadly it never does. There is always a reason given, in the latest one Yoshida said something about if they changed it then it wouldn't be FFXIV anymore..

I would not mind a change. I rather they remove the ilvl if anything, like 1.x (With our stats back..haha yea right..)...and that way there is more horizontal choices mixed with vertical. OP, I just feel that this is a dev team or the producer..whoever it is, but they cannot do this. They cannot figure out how to do something different without it "breaking the game" or any thing like that...I kinda gave up hoping we will see anything different.

[randysquirrel]

I don't really have any issue with the current system, I usually end up capping each week without making any conscious effort to. Just randomly running things with friends and then suddenly I look at my currencies and I'm capped.

I don't really understand the need to increase the cap, all the game's content can be, and has been, cleared under the current system, so to me, that shows it's already quick enough

[vp_cmc]

I don't really have any issue with the current system

If you spend large amount of time raiding savage, like it was in Gordias, you don't get any tomes for that. So you have to cap tomes at some other time outside of raids. I was really struggling to find time for it, because we were raiding 5-7 days per week, and I had barely any time outside of my work and raids.

[Legion88]

Weekly Caps...
Alex normal mode should be capped to 1 loot per run, not 1 per week.
capped Tomestones should have a cap at 7 expert roulette runs, one every day in the week, so if you do more then just expert you don't have to do an expert every day...
capped tomestones should have a rollover for the cap of the last week (you missed the cap, no problem just do it a week later...)
tomestone gear shouldn't have any requirement from a raid or trial...