Stop the Grind-to-the-Endgame madness!

[Rutelor]

This will be a short one. I long for a game in which the steps forward are packed with excitement and opportunities for fun. Not a rat-race to the end; the end being the only place where you will be considered someone by your fellow-players. End anti-newbie discrimination, make every level count. Slow down the pace of advancement. Smell the flowers. Struggle with difficult mobs at every level. Enter awesome events at every step.

This is actually more casual-player-friendly than accelerating and stultifying the game, so that almost anybody can get to the "fun-filled end."

End-obsessed game design fosters fascistic behavior in the community. Plus, it rewards the slacker that doesn't want a life, whereas it penalizes the player with the regular life. Making the advancement mechanics super-easy, the way the developers of this game sometimes seem to believe they should, does not improve the chances for anybody: The "Über" get to the end and get bored too early, the casuals never catch up, and are still discriminated.

Fill the world with one thousand Shposheas, only more complex and more attractive; make getting to level 10, 15, 20, 30 real challenges away from the repetitive levequests, and gratify us with oportunities that open up at every stage: Environmental puzzles, mysteriously coded scrolls, incomplete maps, a bit of Myst in Eorzea.

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[Gramul]

[Andrien]

hey OP.

2.0

[TaalAzura]

How does dedicating time to a grind qualify someone as a slacker, because they "have no life"?

[Rutelor]

hey OP.

2.0

Let's hope so! :-)

[Rutelor]

How does dedicating time to a grind qualify someone as a slacker, because they "have no life"?

"Have no life" is a phrase that does not figure in my OP.

As a matter of fact, I said neither of those things... Please read more attentively.

I'm not attacking a grind. Just a desperation to get to the endgame, because there's nothing else to make you count.

[Gramul]

How does dedicating time to a grind qualify someone as a slacker, because they "have no life"?

More like, they have no care for participating in other aspects of life and thus have more time to focus on this game.

[yoshikwalla]

The reason why there's endgame-based content being released is because of the development of 2.0. This is all to keep the players playing the game with an incentive to keep leveling, and content to keep us satisfied, until the game reaches a state that can be expanded on with lower-leveled and more expansive content.

[Babydoll]

I really hope in 2.0 we do not get the Aion/wow type quests. That would make me sad.

[Elexia]

I really hope in 2.0 we do not get the Aion/wow type quests. That would make me sad.

We will. They need enough quests to make leveling through it viable, so...