Game difficulty, syncing, minimum ilvl and new players

[Hycinthus]

Hmm not an easy solution here. Totally get the new joiner experience argument. Like in every forum, every reddit, we always promote them to play FF14 and to please keep up their efforts to HW and you will see amazing gameplay. Then after slogging through ARR and arriving at HW, and every trial is still a zergfest with every mechanics being skipped.

How soon until they start spreading feedback that FF14 is not an enjoyable experience, until the endgame? Currently the game is still riding high on good word of mouth reviews though.

Having said that, syncing everyone to minimum ilvl does not seem to be the right solution. All tenured players will not join anymore.

Maybe a separate temporary server like BDO where they are “season” character for 2 months in that server, have special perks and erc, then after 2 months, they will graduate and join the regular servers.

[ItMe]

Maybe a separate temporary server like BDO where they are “season” character for 2 months in that server, have special perks and erc, then after 2 months, they will graduate and join the regular servers.

Is that... optional?
Cuz if my friends wanna join but we can't play together for awhile that's no fun for anyone.

[Hycinthus]

Is that... optional?
Cuz if my friends wanna join but we can't play together for awhile that's no fun for anyone.

In BDO yes, it's optional. If your character is in the "Season" server, that character can jump around between "Season", or "Regular" server.

However, tenured players cannot enter the "Season" servers with their high level characters, but they are free to create a new character there too if they want to accompany their friends.

In the "Season" server, the quests are streamlined, condensed, and rewards gears faster. There's a fair amount of handholding, teaching you the necessities of crafting and improving armor, albeit, using easier ingredients and simpler terms. There are mentors who live in the "Season" server all the time, to help out.

Basically it's like a "breeding pond" for new fish, only last for 2 months, before their graduation and be released into the ocean. Then after graduation, a new season will start for the next batch of guppies.

Now that we can jump around servers in a data center, they may be able to do this, just create a "Guppies" server for each data center that will feature condensed MSQ, etc, and to prevent the Guppies Duty Finder to be lacking players, then just ntroduce a Data center wide new Roulette Queue called "Guppies" Roulette where it rewards higher rewards, BUT, you must join with minimum ilvl gear so you cannot zerg-fest or steamroll stuff. Maybe only open it for mentors.

[Iscah]

Now that we can jump around servers in a data center, they may be able to do this, just create a "Guppies" server for each data center that will feature condensed MSQ, etc, ...

For all that some people complain about the MSQ, condensing it on the designated newbie server would be a horrible idea. You're basically forcing people to choose between experiencing the story properly and getting assisted as a new player.

If anything, that's exactly the time where people should be allowed to take it slow and expect to see cutscenes in their entirety without others wanting to rush.