Quote Originally Posted by Nemmar View Post
Dude, pause and listen to yourself. No one would do anything in the game if there were no rewards. That is the whole point. To progress.
To progress... towards what? 80? Someone already done with the story will already be at 80, so that's not it. Better gear? Rewards won't help with that, both since gil rewards are paltry and because gil can only buy you up to 20 item levels below the current gear cap. Level an alt job? Ineffecient. You can get far more exp spamming the relevant dungeon.

That leaves the story.

I don't know about you, but there's two things that keep me subscribed to this game. End-game raid, and the story. At this point my static has everything on farm, so that's only happening once in the week. I already have all the primal mounts, and I'm plucking away at all my alt jobs with my daily roulettes because I don't feel like putting effort into jobs I'll never play.

I'm excited for new game+ because I'll get to re-live the story. The great story that keeps me playing this game. I'm excited to re-live it with the modern version of my current character that I've poured so many hours into.

So personally, I don't mind that there would be no rewards. I don't really see anyone using it normally, because after the first replay, it'll be both ineffecient and boring to see the same thing over and over. But what I DO see is people making bots to spam new game+, along set paths and with set programming, to abuse possible rewards. I think this is an anti-botting measure that doesn't take away anything of actual value from the players.