Why is endgame loot capped?

[Jojoya]

Damn I'm literally shocked at some of the takes in this thread. Y'all are either brainwashed, don't want to believe the truth, or don't want others to know the truth.

The truth: Square Enix doesn't want to risk the chance of having A SINGLE ONE OF THEIR PLAYERS unsubscribing from the game after they've maxed out their characters. Because if they unsubscribe, that means less money for them.

So that's it, that's the legit reason - corporate greed. You can sugarcoat it with some other BS if you want.

Also I love how there's so many replies who don't even bother explaining the actual reason. They just say "it's normal", or "other MMOs do it too".

Time to rise up in revolt!

Instead of staying subbed so you can get BiS in all of your jobs, just get BiS for one then unsub. That will show them! Dangling that carrot at the end of a long string isn't enough to get you to support their corporate greed!

Which honestly is the smart thing to do when you're dissatisfied but no, players must stay subbed to teach corporations a lesson!

You're getting played by yourself but refusing to see it. You don't need BiS, you just want it. And you want it enough that you keep paying when you could walk away until the next content release. It's not like not getting BiS is going to lock you out of participating in the next raid release.

As for not everyone saying why the system works the way it does, why keep repeating what others have already said?
- increases content longevity
- increases chances of players who enter the content late to get a group
- promotes more even distribution of loot among players, so RNG doesn't help lucky players gear near instantly while others struggle due to bad luck.

Do you really need 100 players to keep repeating it over and over before the reasons will finally sink into your head?

If you want the satisfaction of gearing up as fast as possible, play a single player game where no one is competing against you for what drops.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Damn I'm literally shocked at some of the takes in this thread. Y'all are either brainwashed, don't want to believe the truth, or don't want others to know the truth.

The truth: Square Enix doesn't want to risk the chance of having A SINGLE ONE OF THEIR PLAYERS unsubscribing from the game after they've maxed out their characters. Because if they unsubscribe, that means less money for them.

So that's it, that's the legit reason - corporate greed. You can sugarcoat it with some other BS if you want.

Also I love how there's so many replies who don't even bother explaining the actual reason. They just say "it's normal", or "other MMOs do it too".

Well I mean, there ARE people unsubbing anyway so...

[RitsukoSonoda]

Well just think... If they hadn't removed everything related to build crafting from the game they could have implemented horizontal progression systems...

[VeyaAkemi]

Also I love how there's so many replies who don't even bother explaining the actual reason. They just say "it's normal", or "other MMOs do it too".

No see, that's the real juicy bit to me, they are saying that seemly without realizing that every MMO that does it, does it for the same reason, no game want to lose players, even f2p games needs their free players so that their paying players have people to play with.

Just because an issue became standard doesn't mean it isn't an issue.

[Reinha]

There needs to be a reason to log in for 4 months even after you've killed all the bosses once and done all the quests. It's either lockouts, long currency grinds or RNG. I find lockouts to be more player-friendly then the other two.

Of course people don't have to stay subbed for the entirety of a 4 month patch but the lockouts are there to reward those who want to. Players who like to unsub don't have to get any weekly locked gear because in the next major patch they can just get the next uncapped loot before unsubbing again.

[rxantos]

Is about more players being available for the raids.
If you could get all the gear in one sit, then you wouldn't need to play the raid again. Meaning less players for the raids.

[Kaurhz]

Loot cap is fine, but the loot cap persists for far too long.

[KatiaRelanah]

Question

Why is getting BiS such a big deal for non-savage/casual players? Cuz like, the only thing I can think of is... What, being able to kill a trash mob that spawns during a patch MSQ quest with one less attack? Wowie zowie, that 2.5 seconds you saved is definitely worth taking away any sort of exclusivity (even if only of timing) that savage raiders get for spending the time to grind out a fight.

t. Casual player who doesn't care, let the raiders have their shinies fer heck's sake

[Jojoya]

Question

Why is getting BiS such a big deal for non-savage/casual players? Cuz like, the only thing I can think of is... What, being able to kill a trash mob that spawns during a patch MSQ quest with one less attack? Wowie zowie, that 2.5 seconds you saved is definitely worth taking away any sort of exclusivity (even if only of timing) that savage raiders get for spending the time to grind out a fight.

t. Casual player who doesn't care, let the raiders have their shinies fer heck's sake

Why is getting BiS such a big deal to hardcore raiders when they've usually cleared the content without it in the first place?

You're not going to need it for the next raid release (unless there's an Ultimate coming). New crafted gear will be released with a higher ilvl. And having it equipped is just nerfing the difficulty of everything around you at the same time there are raiders complaining that things are getting too easy.

Casual players have to wait to get their shinies. Hardcore players have to wait to get theirs. Sounds like everyone being treated the same.

[TomsYoungerBro]

Why is getting BiS such a big deal to hardcore raiders when they've usually cleared the content without it in the first place?

...Because it's required for ultimate?