is this game love giving F2P experience?

[Nero-Voidstails]

Hello all yes I will complain once more but well I just feel this game is a F2P experience that we pay for.


Play other game he say like sure but aren't I am paying to play a ff14 so why are we still getting a cap on savage gear? Even the 450 tome cap? I can understand they don't want player to be burn out but I think at this points it's kinda bad if gears would matter in PvP I would be like sure why not. But guess what! it isn't like they should allow people to roll once per fight on gear yes so everyone have something.


With cosmic it feel even worst most of the best reward are look behind the lottery that you need 1k lunar thing to even get one chance and every mission give 20/50 caps. if you think all this is fine they good for you but for me this is starting to no more be worth a sub because of how if feel.

[CCheshire]

Same. I've been on and off playing since ARR, and I'm baffled that the tomes are still limited to 450 each expansion, so I can only X number of things before it's capped and I stop logging in for dailies.

Also, farming 99x totems for mount trade-in to be unlocked 6+ months later, I feel like this is slowly telling me to stop farming them since it's way too low of a drop rate for new Extremes at the start, it feels useless apart from the weapon. I haven't considered old mount for this reason since that'd be thousands of totems when I'm unlucky, and I'm always unlucky for RNG.

[Jeeqbit]

why are we still getting a cap on savage gear?

So that people reclear the raids each week rather than farm them all in the first week. The actual intention of mechnisms like that I believe is so that people who start a bit late still see parties up, although they do anyway in practice because you still have prog parties 7 months later.

Even the 450 tome cap?

This is likely for the same reason. To keep people playing over a longer stretch of time, which benefits other players who don't just "farm it all week1 then leave". Yoshi-P once said he could "write a book" about why the tomestone cap was needed, including the 2,000 cap for poetics apparently, since obviously he gets asked about it by journalists.

With cosmic it feel even worst most of the best reward are look behind the lottery that you need 1k lunar thing to even get one chance and every mission give 20/50 caps. if you think all this is fine they good for you but for me this is starting to no more be worth a sub because of how if feel.

That's basically Kupo of Fortune from what I understand. And all those rewards ended up on MB I think?

[Nero-Voidstails]

sooooo 90$ for the extension then a 20 per month sorry but I do think we don't have what we deserve as content with how much we pay

[Ukina]

You're really kind saying it feels like a F2P experience. There are F2P around with way more contents and interesting rewards than what we're paying for with XIV.
I feel stolen more than scammed with that Cosmic disaster

[Nero-Voidstails]

You're really kind saying it feels like a F2P experience. There are F2P around with way more contents and interesting rewards than what we're paying for with XIV.
I feel stolen more than scammed with that Cosmic disaster

I didn't wanted to be 100% bad but ya honestly I can get why alot feel that way

[Anonemoose]

It's worse than a F2P experience because we can't paypig to bypass those arbitrary caps. The system as it stands is designed to coerce players into maintaining their subscription and boosting engagement metrics to make the shareholders happy.

It's crazy, really. We pay a box price for each expansion and a monthly subscription for a live service game, in a traditional understanding you would think we are the customer and our needs and wants should be catered to create the value proposition. SE being a publicly traded company means we are also a product, and this materially changes the dynamic.

In the modern day where a small number of public companies have commercialised live service games and come to dominate and control the video game industry generally, we players are a commodity. We're a customer and a product. Unfortunately this balance is always going to be tilted because the law is an ass. Public companies have legal obligations to maximise returns for shareholders, and so live service gamers in Anno Domini 2000+25 are basically running on a hamster wheel to have as much wealth extracted out of them as possible for the financial benefit of people they don't know.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

So that people reclear the raids each week rather than farm them all in the first week. The actual intention of mechnisms like that I believe is so that people who start a bit late still see parties up, although they do anyway in practice because you still have prog parties 7 months later.
This is likely for the same reason. To keep people playing over a longer stretch of time, which benefits other players who don't just "farm it all week1 then leave". Yoshi-P once said he could "write a book" about why the tomestone cap was needed, including the 2,000 cap for poetics apparently, since obviously he gets asked about it by journalists.
That's basically Kupo of Fortune from what I understand. And all those rewards ended up on MB I think?

This excuse is a load of crap loads myself included want the glam and want to fully gear multiple classes to play the content. Even when its increased to 900 just before an expansion you see a large influx of players spamming away to max all the classes they want.

[Shyxx]

Weekly cap this early is fine but they need to let those who have cleared help others without punishing them, even if they don't get to roll again themselves

[Gurgeh]

Same. I've been on and off playing since ARR, and I'm baffled that the tomes are still limited to 450 each expansion, so I can only X number of things before it's capped and I stop logging in for dailies.

Also, farming 99x totems for mount trade-in to be unlocked 6+ months later, I feel like this is slowly telling me to stop farming them since it's way too low of a drop rate for new Extremes at the start, it feels useless apart from the weapon. I haven't considered old mount for this reason since that'd be thousands of totems when I'm unlucky, and I'm always unlucky for RNG.

All of this.

I'm loging off because if there isn't an EX4 with a spot free for my main , then since Chaotic PF and still having nothing to show for clearing Ex1-3 my heart is just not in it enough to host my own anymore.
My alt role still can't get geared because of augment cap.
The truth is I enjoyed progging Ex1-3. I thought I was going somewhere, now I know I'm not. And I'm just not bothered if I ever clear EX4. I just don't know how to pick my PFs
and honestly, I'm afraid of look like a "progliar" just because I don't even realise I'm still misunderstanding the mechanic/strat.
Thanks to the augment cap even my main still wasn't fully augmented, and it's only just now catching up with normal raid gear. I had to share augments with my alt role to get that sufficiently greater for ex3 last patch.
I'm progging it. It's ok. But I'm not having fun anymore like was still with EX3.
34,000 gil a week I have leftover from the rouls I can still bear to queue is not enough to consider crafted grear. Crafting and gathering is just horrible with the vanilla game. (Not in hurry to unlock the moon). I reccon I'm probably still playing around 10 hours a week. That's enough. But I just absolutely will not dedicate it to meta farming on my own for x,y,z. I like to join in other people's activities. Go with their flow. But it's all pretty pointless as that means just super casual. There is no engaging casual.