Quote Originally Posted by ElazulHP View Post
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