Naoki Yoshida's Comment in Regard to Jump Potions/Boost Potions

[Alkimi]

The current playerbase wont improve unless it wants to. Most people dont care to be good, as evidenced by when asking said people why they arent using the full set of skills. "its too much work"

Pretty much. Players who want to be good at the game and improve themselves will do so, regardless of whether they use a jump potion or not. In fact I'd think it would be these kinds of players who are far more likely to use these to skip the story. Spamming skip cutscene, performing fetch quests, and running faceroll dungeons won't make you a good player.

I'm all for the jump potions, they will do more good than harm.

[Kewitt]

I would personally like to see a 10 X EXP in 1-50 content and 5 x EXP in 51-60 content.
This would speed up exp and still let people get to cap Quickly. And Enjoy the content with there friends.

Also this would help all jobs vs just 1 quick jump to Expansion starting level.


I have a few jobs at 60 and a few DoW/M between 1-59. I am slowly leveling all to 60... But I enjoy leveling them but running the same content over and over gets a little old I would sooner have a 10x increase in EXP between 1-60 that way I could level 1 job very quickly or 10 jobs in the time it took someone to get 1 jobs before, yet still have time to learn how to play.

Your new. Get to the 1st dungeon your already level 25. Do that dungeon your level 30. Start leveling another class your level 17 before to long you jump in to that 2nd dungeon and come out level 23.. oo wow I get a few levels for doing a dungeon . I going to level another job it's quick EXP. Hit level 60 it's kind of slow but now I'm close to end game what job to play I got 5 at 60..


Also Negative. Not talked about...

Person pays for job jump. oo Shit I hate PLD in END GAME. I want a refund can I use it on another job. NO.
Eeer
Ok pay for another jump. oo I like WHM in End game. to bad I wasted a jump on PLD it sucks...


I picked PLD because I have Warrior and PLD at 60 and I like WAR better just a person choice.

[Eliitti]

I'm all for a jump potion a lot of my friends have quickly quit the game because some of the old content leveling or questing mostly due to getting locked behind level during the main scenario quests, BUT I think new players would find it just as upsetting having to buy the game, the expansions and then spend another 42$/40€ just to play with their friends. I would suggest that upon purchasing Stormblood a player receives both a Story Skip Potion and 1 Job Jump Potion. Obviously I understand this is bad for business so if giving new players both potions is too much to ask I would suggest that upon purchasing Stormblood a player receives AT LEAST 1 Job Jump Potion and the same goes for future expansions to make the journey a bit easier on the new players.

I hope this goes over well with players and I wish you best of luck Square Enix I will always support you no matter which way you decide to go.

[FinaSel]

Already quit the game due to lack of worthwhile content, among other reasons.

Was consiering coming back some day.
But now with these kinds of items, I will not play again.

I have, in almost all cases, hated games with items like this.
Quality of players will decrease and, since most of the game requires cooperation with other players, quality of game will decrease.

I strongly disagree with the decision and reasons made in the post.

[Belhi]

Already quit the game due to lack of worthwhile content, among other reasons.

Was consiering coming back some day.
But now with these kinds of items, I will not play again.

I have, in almost all cases, hated games with items like this.
Quality of players will decrease and, since most of the game requires cooperation with other players, quality of game will decrease.

I strongly disagree with the decision and reasons made in the post.

I'm afraid you'll find that these days there are very few online games that don't offer a service like this. WoW does it. GW2 does it. SWTOR does it. Frankly FF14 is currently one of the few which don't do it.

[FinaSel]

I'm afraid you'll find that these days there are very few online games that don't offer a service like this. WoW does it. GW2 does it. SWTOR does it. Frankly FF14 is currently one of the few which don't do it.

That's why I chose this game. Because it didn't have those things.
But now that it does...well I'm uninstalling it right now.

EDIT: Wanted to add one reason why I feel strongly about this.
Already, we get people in groups who do not know how to play.
They waste everyone else's time.

We wait 30 minutes, an hour, or more for a group sometimes. We finally get the group. Then we get a player who knows nothing and wastes the precious time of the other players.
I think most of us have jobs and families and many responsibilities. We want to make the most of the little time we have to play the game.

But when that time is wasted because someone lacking experience is there, it is very bad for everyone else.
Especially people who queue "Completion" but can't even survive past the first phase.

These potions will just increase these kinds of problems.
No. No, we don't need any more of this. I don't. You don't. The community doesn't. NO ONE wants more bad, inexperienced players.

These potions will create countless problems, while fixing one.

[Lufir]

That's why I choose this game. Because it didn't have those things.
But now that it does...well I'm uninstalling it right now.

You are over reacting quite a bit don't you think? It isn't even a thing yet. The producer/director's post just outlined how the jump potions work in Korea and Chinese versions of the game. Now, he is simply asking for feedback from North American players in this forum. Instead, he gets overly emotional posts like yours who are either too bothered to read passed the first paragraph because the phrase "jump potion" has you too triggered, or are threatening to uninstall and cancel subs. I wouldn't be surprised if he completely disregards the responses in this thread.

[FinaSel]

You are over reacting quite a bit don't you think? It isn't even a thing yet. The producer/director's post just outlined how the jump potions work in Korea and Chinese versions of the game. Now, he is simply asking for feedback from North American players in this forum. Instead, he gets overly emotional posts like yours who are either too bothered to read passed the first paragraph because the phrase "jump potion" has you too triggered, or are threatening to uninstall and cancel subs. I wouldn't be surprised if he completely disregards the responses in this thread.

I'm not "threatening" to uninstall or cancel subs.
I already stopped renewing my subscription before this was announced.
And already uninstalled.

I read the entire post.

I disregarded the responses in this thread, because by the time I read 30 pages of responses, 30 more will be posted.

I do not like the idea of jump potions. I do not need to dumb down my feelings in regards to this. It is how I feel.
I am expressing my feelings on this important topic for anyone who reads this, not only other players, to understand how some people feel about this.

And who knows whether any developer will read this or not.
But, in the end, I guess it doesn't affect me anymore anyway, because I won't play again. So...yeah.

Just expressing my dissatisfaction with their decision to do this.

[FinaSel]

To be honest, I feel bad for all the people who worked so hard to make the story and cut scenes.

It won't be soon before we see cash shop items which temporarily increase HP, MP, and other stats.
Probably will see Reraise potions soon too.

Thank goodness for YouTube. I can just watch the rest of the story cutscenes on there without having to pay a subscription fee.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

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Funny you say that because that's exactly what raiders told other players that complained about the Coil being too difficult. "Don't like it? Go watch it on youtube." And that's all she wrote. If content isn't accessible, then no one will bother trying to reach it.