New game+ rewards

[ShoteR]

Hi!
As the majority of players of this game, i loved my leveling experience throughout the MSQ and was really hyped about the new game+ announcement, but the fact that it gives zero rewards gave me zero incentive to play it, since i'd be basically wasting my time. if i'd just wanted to enjoy the story i might aswell create another character to level through the MSQ again and earn all the exp and item rewards(a Fantasia aswell).

so my suggestion is to make NG+ give some exp reward so that people have a reason to do that without having a feeling that they'd better level another character rather than using the NG+. to avoid ppl exploiting it to level faster, i'd also suggest to make cutscenes unskippable like the MSQ dungeons.

[DrWho2010]

yeah no i don't think that's gonna happen or is a time worthy suggestion to make.

[Iscah]

so my suggestion is to make NG+ give some exp reward so that people have a reason to do that without having a feeling that they'd better level another character rather than using the NG+. to avoid ppl exploiting it to level faster, i'd also suggest to make cutscenes unskippable like the MSQ dungeons.

That would just inconvenience the target audience as well as the EXP grinders. Yes they're there for the story, but with it delivered in large chunks of half-a-game or so, they might not want to watch every single cutscene again. Maybe they just want to replay the one-time-only fight with X, and get through everything on the way there as quickly as possible.

Also, look at how much people complain about unskippable cutscenes already, with generous rewards and the reasoning that it's to help other people who want to watch it!

Whatever they're doing 'behind the scenes' to make NG+ work might not even be compatible with rewards. It seems to be dropping you into a different save file so you don't overwrite your current progress. It probably should have just been called "Story Replay" or "Reminiscence" or something, but perhaps the subtlety of the 'plus' implying bonuses got lost in translation.

If you'd rather level a new character for the rewards, do that. If you'd rather replay the story for the sake of replaying the story on your existing character, do that.

[Naoki34]

Hi!
As the majority of players of this game, i loved my leveling experience throughout the MSQ and was really hyped about the new game+ announcement, but the fact that it gives zero rewards gave me zero incentive to play it, since i'd be basically wasting my time. if i'd just wanted to enjoy the story i might aswell create another character to level through the MSQ again and earn all the exp and item rewards(a Fantasia aswell).

so my suggestion is to make NG+ give some exp reward so that people have a reason to do that without having a feeling that they'd better level another character rather than using the NG+. to avoid ppl exploiting it to level faster, i'd also suggest to make cutscenes unskippable like the MSQ dungeons.

And an another person who doesn't understand that about the NG+, it's for people want to live the MSQ again, withouth leveling.

It's not addressed to leveling. In other word, not for you.

This is a content for players who are bored between two big patches. The INN's log shows only half of the dialogues of the MSQ.

[TheForce]

Gotta disagree with this suggestion. I like how New Game + is set up right now. Completely optional, and only there for story. Nobody feels like, they MUST do it y'know? Just a nice little treat for people (like myself) whom the story means a lot to. I wish this game had more things like that tbh.

[RicaRuin]

New Game+ was never for levelling purposes, only for reliving the story.

For levelling, you have the Roulettes. If you added EXP to New Game+, the queues for Roulettes would be more empty, which would have heavier consequences than adding EXP would be beneficial.

[MistakeNot]

There are reasons for using NG+ instead of leveling another character. For one thing, NG+ will let you replay the HW and SB stories without having to go through all of ARR once again.
That being said - if you feel zero incentive to use NG+, then don't use it. Problem solved.
It is there for those who want it, and those who don't want it can skip it without that hurting anyone.

[Tlamila]

Why do you want an incentive? Why do you need a reward to replay story apart from the fact itself of seeing story again?
If somebody is not interested in story itself, clearly the function is not for them.

(also going through story again through an alt also involves doing all the unlocks again, aether currents etc, not quite the same as just reliving story.)

[JWag12787]

It wasn't designed to be a leveling up method (as cool as that would be), but simply, an alternative to using the unending stories in the fact you can replay the entire story.


I was hoping for at least partial exp gains as well, but I'm still going to replay it, because my character has changed alot since then, and I am now more bad-ass than I was first time around

[JowyAtreides]

If you want a heckton of exp and tomes from reliving cutscenes of main scenario gone by, there is also MSQ roulette

But I'll hazard a guess that this is also not suitable for you agenda.

The entire purpose is to give people who want to revisit the story, the opportunity to do so.