Radical Game Suggestion: Shut down the Aetherytes.

[RogueDK]

Yes. Really. Hear me out on this:

Square Enix is already using every trick in the book to slow down player progression: Multiple kinds of currency, limit on how many of certain currencies allowed per week, low drop-rate on certain items and limit on how many items that can be obtained per week from most recent raid dungeons.

So why not slow players down in a more "natural" way?
If the aethyrites where removed from the game it would force people to move around the world at a much slower pace. We would have to start using airships to move between the major cities, (Who ever uses airships at all anymore after unlocking the aetherytes in each city? The airships just sit there unused), and we would be forced to use mounts or even the chocobo couriers. (No one uses them at all - I think there are people out there that dont know they exist.)

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