Thread: Can we try... In 5.0..

Originally Posted by ElazulHP

Square will never change the formula because to them its wildly successful. I mean everyone here is still playing and loves it right? If not they'd have unsubscribed long ago. Or at least that is probably how they see it.

That's not the case. It's actually punishing to the player and not an enjoyable experience. The reason why SE has the tombstone cap is because they want to artificially add game time / subscription extension and people buy into it because it's one of the few remaining MMORPGs with a community. So despite the many flaws this game has, how many things actually punishes the player, people are willing to accept it for the sake that it's one of the last surviving MMOs that isn't a freemium gachafest and maintains some reasonable level of integrity. So any time they add something new that takes 12 weeks to complete because they cap how fast you can get these things, that's 12 weeks of extra sub time that people are "forced" into if they are completionists. This isn't bad per-se, it's actually a brilliant business strategy. I don't really obsess over these things though, I play other content and if I feel like it, I'll get more tombstones for the sake of having them. If the only thing that kept me playing was tombstone gear, I would unsub, but this game has more to offer than just that, at least until I complete everything else lol

Originally Posted by Eriane_Elis

That's not the case. It's actually punishing to the player and not an enjoyable experience.

It may seem like its punishing the player and not enjoyable, but that's because its an MMO and they cant 100% always be focused on the single-player experience. If you look at single player-games with the same amount of scrutiny as we do with FFxiv's tomestones, you would probably find a ton of "artificially added game time". But FFxiv isn't player focused, its group focused. And the gear lockouts and such is required to marginally keep most of the consistent, active playerbase around the same iLvl so that they can keep playing together.

Yes, let's not have a cap so a good chunk of player can burn out near instantly. Great idea lad. /s

The thing I hate about the weekly cap is not really the time hating of one job’s gear progression, but rather that it forces me into picking a main job each patch that will undoubtedly be my most feared for weeks/months. Maybe the best part about FFXIV to me is that you can switch jobs on the fly without needing to invest over and over in alts. The timegated tomes process kind of doo doos all over that concept.

Originally Posted by TheJarvisMan

The thing I hate about the weekly cap is not really the time hating of one job’s gear progression, but rather that it forces me into picking a main job each patch that will undoubtedly be my most feared for weeks/months. Maybe the best part about FFXIV to me is that you can switch jobs on the fly without needing to invest over and over in alts. The timegated tomes process kind of doo doos all over that concept.

timegating* not time hating

(Can I not edit posts from my phone?)

One thing I'd like to see is a cumulative cap, similar to what Blizzard did for conquest points in WoW. Something like 50% of your unused cap should roll over to the next week, allowing people with less time or who have been gone from the game to catch up a little easier without lessening the amount of work involved to do so.

Removing the cap entirely won't happen though. They don't want people no-lifing dungeons and being fully decked on the Tuesday the patch comes out. It lessens the incentive for people to keep logging in and playing.

Not going to happen, and they're not going to remove weekly lockouts on raid drops either. Because if they didn't have weekly caps people could just blow through it all in a weekend and be done until the next major patch. This is why MMOs have weekly and sometimes daily lockouts on things in general.

Originally Posted by Bright-Flower

Not going to happen, and they're not going to remove weekly lockouts on raid drops either. Because if they didn't have weekly caps people could just blow through it all in a weekend couple hours and be done until the next major patch. This is why MMOs have weekly and sometimes daily lockouts on things in general.

Fixed that for you!