New island grind

[Fawkes]

I don't like that the voucher system seems like yet another attempt at making the island more annoying.

And by that I mean trying to divert players off of following the optimal recommendations from the people doing the math on all the boring stock market stuff.

If they wanted me to engage with that system and not just blindly put in what other people tell me to, they shouldn't have made it as obtuse and unfun as it is. All they did this time was make it less rewarding because now instead of listening to people on a discord I'm just blindly putting the required items on sub-optimal days, until there's a solver for it or something. It doesn't really matter for me at this point because I've earned over a million cowries and they probably won't add anything else to spend cowries on, but for people who haven't been maxing out their cowries the new vouchers are only going to get in the way of earning them.

So, at best the new system doesn't matter at all, and at worst it makes earning cowries worse. There's not really an upside, unless you really want to be unique and flaunt the one reward from it and ride what I assume is another mandy mount that most people won't have any time soon.

[Deceptus]

the island as an excuse for people to stay subbed is pretty weak.

I know quite a few people, myself included, who arent really into their sweatshop islands and who stay subbed for completely different reasons

they likely just set up the timeframe so it lines up like that since they know people would be doing the new expansion, so planned, yes, to keep people subbed... I would not pin my hat on that theory

They've essentially become FFXIV's version of WoW's Garrison system. Log in, do a thing for 10m or so, leave and forget it.