Petition against Level Sync

[Pim-ptarutaruOdin]

Looks like your losing lol look 2 post down from your op alot more people are disagreeing with you. Looks like it back fired for you. Better luck next time ;P

[Jynx]

It's a valid point that party options might need to be looked at after we have a large enough player population to have people actually partying.

Powerleveling and quick leveling speed in general act against having a healthy community for new and old players, 2.0 is going to come out and new players are going to find themselves stranded in a sea of max ranked players who don't have anything to do with the new players.

[JakeRoon]

LOL exactly

[Kyri]

It's silly to fight so much over this. Level sync is a choice. A choice for a say.. lv 40 person who keeps looking for parties with no luck can decide if they want to sync down to a pt that is on it's way to fight. This being said, you don't -have- to sync down, you can wait, or start your own level 40 party if you want to, but if you -do- the option is there.
This is a option for someone to turn around and play with someone who joined the game for them, even if they have nothing left to level. This is a way to get people to stop coming in your linkshell, complaining about being lv 30 and demanding a power level (I know you all must get asked once or twice). This is a step towards getting people the levels they want, getting others back into enjoying time playing and exping when they are done leveling themselves. If you don't want to level sync, don't level sync. Make your pt or keep looking, go farm while you wait, have fun. It's really that simple. There's no need to fight with each other on this preference. you may as well be fighting about how un-cool power leveling is to how cool someone else thinks it is.

[Kyri]

(Posting as Kaetara Sagitta)

Whoever said that the ogre in Mor Dhona would be somehow "nerfed" by the party because they turned on Level Sync.. doesn't know what the heck Level Sync is or what it does and should properly educate themselves on these matters before making extravagant posts.

Secondly.. in regards to Level Sync destroying FFXI, it didn't. Before the option to Sync was released, almost every high-level party was relegated to Greater Colibri parties that cried if they didn't have two BRDs. Yeah.. I remember days of partying there getting chain 200's for XP and Merit Points. Also, Level Sync pales in comparison to long-running Abyssea parties. When you can get into a party for a few hours and by the end of it you're making 100k+ XP/Hr, what Level Sync party anywhere can compare to that?

For the person who was implying that players should, paraphrasing, "not level everything to 50 because people need to think of the future"... what planet are you from? Most of the "elite" players like to have the best possible gear available for the job they play, and when SE released the achievement system that featured a Paragon's Crown reward for attaining level 50 with all DoW/M jobs.. how in your right mind can you tell people that they were somehow "wrong" for wanting to get it? How can you blame people who wanted to get to 50 with everything just because they are "achievement hunters"?

The simple fact is that there isn't a lot of content in FFXIV. SE releases content and it is beaten within a few days, if not hours, and then people wait for the next patch.. if they aren't grinding out the content 500-1000 times repetitively trying to attain rare gear. Right now, do you see much else in FFXIV going on that isn't Cutter's Cry or Aurum Vale groups? Nothing is really going to change in that aspect until they release a patch that has SO much to do that players literally can't get it all complete in the month or two needed for SE to release another patch.. and then THAT patch needs to have MORE content.

For the moment, XIV is basically a bunch (if relatively small population) of players constantly doing the same thing over and over and over and over.

More on-topic, with the way things are at the moment in FFXIV, it isn't easy to draw in new players. Likely, we won't see an explosion of new subscriptions until 2.0 is released. What new players do come to FFXIV are placed into a world where only people who have been very dedicated to giving this game a chance remain, and most of those people have had to deal with the lack of challenging or detailed content by leveling their jobs, just to give them something to do. Therefore, most of the playerbase is sitting at level 50 and there aren't a lot of partying options for new players.

Level Sync would at least remedy that. Higher level players could party with lower-level players and take a break from the redundancy of running through the same dungeon over and over.

Until some major expansion along the lines of, say, Chains of Promathia for XI, is released.. wherein players can spend MONTHS trying to complete the storyline.. there isn't much to do except repetitive grind and leveling jobs. Don't blame people for being level 50 because leveling is one of the only things to do in this game.

[Davorok]

ALSO: if they added a level cap to Instanced raids, you could party, level up, have fun with your lower level friends.[/B]~ COMPROMISE~

I like your idea but with one change. . Just make Level Synch Instance only. They wouldn't have to Cap the Instances (people could still do speed runs) but just give the Party Leader the option to Synch Levels when they enter the Instance.

[Peptaru]

45 minutes to teriggan? YOU'RE DOIN IT WRONG! I don't think it took 45 minutes the first time i walked from bastok > altep > rabao > teriggan. lol

[Mychael]

45 minutes to teriggan? YOU'RE DOIN IT WRONG! I don't think it took 45 minutes the first time i walked from bastok > altep > rabao > teriggan. lol

^^^This.

Wait--I got it... Jack, you were that guy who didn't have any crags, weren't you. ._.''