Raise currency (tokens) cap to 100k

[TheElvenQueen]

Just wondering why most currency caps are so low and I started extrapolating:
How would have I done it? Technically no cap. Let people farm what they want and
spend it when they want. Why didn't they make it so?

Well, artifically created storage scarcity -> fomo -> players buy retainers for storage.

Even without the constant flow breaking mandatory "go to vendor X to burn tokens" inconvenience, there would still be the issue of storage.
Try having all jobs and random leveling gear + buy each category bis tomestone gear
around lvl 50, 60, 70, in advance, etc. so your tomestones and pvp currency wouldn't go to waste from overflowing.

This is so stupid. You are making enough money, can you let us breathe?
We want to play and just farm stuff, without having to constantly put everything else on ice to off load currencies for gear/pvp glams, and then somehow do our entire inventory, force sell/delete stuff, all everything, the whole warehouse of every armory tab, sort by level, do I need this now or later, do I want to keep it as glam, is the ilvl good, for which job, how soon, blaablaablaa... work work work...

I don't know about the core target audience of this game, but call me crazy for thinking I would want to play a game to RELAX, and being a "mmo rpg", like kill monsters and explore dungeons, not play "inventory simulator dance dance revolution" ??

Raise the cap for pvp/tomestones to 100k, let us farm it all we want.
Then when our alt jobs hit the required levels, we can just go to the vendor, buy a full bis gear set, slap it on, delete the old one. Done.

But hey, another drop in the water "too much to ask for, never gonna happen" toss.

[XiRon]

Id settle for either a permanent 900 weekly tomestone cap or lowering tome chest/leg cost to 625.
Two full weeks to get a ilv620 undyable gear piece is absurd and savage being harder doesnt matter if you can get a full set of ilv630 gear before the next alliance comes out 4.5 months later to allow nonsavage players to get their stats up.

[Kes13a]

the point, I believe, is that despite your wishes, they do not want or expect you to live to play, such as some of the systems WoW inserted over the years where it made it to where a game was a job.

they want you to occasionally go outside, touch grass etc.not game 24/7 farming tomes.

[BRVV]

they want you to occasionally go outside, touch grass etc.not game 24/7 farming tomes.

OR they want you to run content once a week so you have to stay subscribed

[SannaR]

OR they want you to run content once a week so you have to stay subscribed

It's both.

[LittleImp]

It's both.

The billion dollar Japanese megacorporation totally has our best interests at heart.

[SannaR]

The billion dollar Japanese megacorporation totally has our best interests at heart.

I mean why else would Yoshida tell the player base to go take breaks from the game and to go play other games and come back when you want to? I know you're most likely being sarcastic, but so am I to an extent.

[Sotaris]

The billion dollar Japanese megacorporation totally has our best interests at heart.

Maybe not the company but it's been clear that Yoshida has that mindset, I mean the guy urged people to take breaks and play other games and come back when there is new content.

What we have here? nothing besides talk to NPC Y - >Z get your swimsuit (once again appealing to RP community) and see you later next year with the same stuff or in 3-4 months later with the same "event" from the last decade.

Then it's good it's optional eh?

[Ranaku]

The billion dollar Japanese megacorporation totally has our best interests at heart.

Obviously they want to make money and keep their playerbase cause well that gives money. I think nobody here is really that delusional that SE just makes games out of the goodness of their hearts.

But seriously FFXIV has their monetization and game mechanics actually balanced unlike some other games <cough> WoW <cough>. If you take a break and login after half a year you can go right back into action easily with crafted gear etc., in WoW you would need to farm for decades until you reach the almost same powerlevel as the top raiders. There has to be a reward for playing frequently and well dragging the gear people get a bit out over the months, which is actually good cause that way raidgroups are less toxic when the raider hasn't full tomestone gear by week two cause there is no cap and well it is way more healthy for the player. Sure there could be some good changes, especially just getting rid of the poetics cap cause that one makes almost no sense at all.

But it is fair to say that Yoshi P. does have the fun of the players at heart and he calls most of the shots when it comes to XIV cause heck SE knows that he knows better than them, same reason why they put him in charge of XVI. So yeah, obviously there has to be mechanics that bind the player to the game a bit, that is what MMOs are about are they not? But i never had the feeling XIV gets too exzessive with it.

[Jojoya]

OR they want you to run content once a week so you have to stay subscribed

There are other ways to get gear besides tomestones and players don't need the best gear to get through MSQ or any other content outside of Savage/Ultimate.

If anything, putting the cap on tomestones encourages players to try other content instead of just finding the most efficient way to farm tomestones and sticking to that.