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

[Xlantaa]

Well. THen. Good bye Duty Finder. Now I will queue only with friends for all. You killed the Duty Finder queues. Good job.

You lost 1 tank in the DF (you can laugh, but I will laugh when more tanks do it).

[greatestfoe]

insulting to the players who spent the time and effort leveling their stuff up personally. nevermind that square could just increase exp earned at lower levels so players who are new could still accomplish a lot relatively quickly but still have to do everything themselves. no, this is monetized cheating and i hope you make lots of noob bux from players with no attachments to your game, square. i've been playing for years and i think i'm more reliable and yet instead of the noob considering quitting, you've made it me. *good job*

[bass9020]

With the funds from all the potions can we finally get better quality cutscenes? Its only fair that the MSQs and all side quests be boosted to a quality that was similar to 1.0 now. Just saying.

[Clawbriar]

insulting to the players who spent the time and effort leveling their stuff up personally. nevermind that square could just increase exp earned at lower levels so players who are new could still accomplish a lot relatively quickly but still have to do everything themselves. no, this is monetized cheating and i hope you make lots of noob bux from players with no attachments to your game, square. i've been playing for years and i think i'm more reliable and yet instead of the noob considering quitting, you've made it me. *good job*

Monetised cheating is the funniest thing I've read in this thread, and we've already had people literally say "I don't DPS when I heal! Tanks let me die!" If newbies getting to skip 100+ quests of "talk to Minfilia then talk to Alphinaud then repeat ad nauseum" upsets you so much to call it "monetised cheating", please, quit now. Save yourself the ulcer.

[Nolaie]

Skipping MSQ potion is good since its pretty lame and annoying and boring but instant lvl 60 job isn't really necessary and more likely to meet players who refuse to play their jobs correctly or didn't properly learn their classes..

[Delmontyb]

Also, to add, I think it will be a mistake to add this sometime after the release of 4.0... please have it ready with the launch of 4.0

Thanks,

[KyroeFelix]

I do, lets say a RMT gets on uses boost potion for any of the craft jobs makes invests in gear then transfers the gil to someone who isn\\'t a bot, then sells it makes profit and wrecking the Market board for everyone.

I understand its for players to catch up and even though they won\\'t know the mechanics they\\'ll learn but I can see this being abused and if people say no, they are RMT they always find ways to screw things up trust me.

.I doubt this would be available for a crafter. Crafting has absolutely nothing to do with progressing the main story.

[KyroeFelix]

I don't know why they don't just make the expansions stand-alone like in FFXI. Iirc, you had to reach a certain rank (3, I think...maybe 5{Shadow Lord fight}) and then you did a specific quest to start each different expansion. Granted, this method doesn't ensure that players experience everything the game has to offer in each expansion but you don't need story potions for it.

I know your story is all tied together but maybe you should start thinking about making them separate story lines so that people don't need to know or clear EVERYTHING before they can access the latest content.

[VraeliaValkyria]

Please dear Hydaelyn, no! I'm sorry to say but, there's already terrible players at 60. I don't want anymore people being bad. (No offense!!)
This is laziness. Seemingly privileged action. We need new players to actually do the things we vets have already done ourselves. It isn't right at all that they get spoon fed, and thus crippling them.

This is the worst idea ever by Yoshida. Please reconsider this, Yoshida. Please!

[Nalfein]

I was expecting a better formula. Buy the entire game: ARR + Heavensward and Stormblood then get a free potion of each included (story skip potion and job jump potion); that would at least resolve the catch up issue if this was really why the potions was implemented for, otherwise i doubt new players are going to pay ARR+ both expansions and both potions, that would be a huge amount of money just to pay a monthly fee MMORPG. Not to complain about the price if i had to level and alt i'd be more than welcome to pay the fee on the mog station but for new players that doesn't sounds right to me to pay $59.99 (ARR+Heavensward) + $42 (skip story potion + job jump potion) Stormblood not included just to play with my friends, that would be more than a $100....a way to discourage new players more than anything else in my opinion but whatever.