Battle Pass Introduction?

[Yharnie]

Hello,

I have been playing ff14 since 5.2 and have enjoyed lots of the content.

I have often wondered why there is not a battle Pass system in game that refreshes every major patch (0.1/0.2 etc). Call it a 'Sphere Grid' and design it with a similar visual to ff10's Sphere Grid.

Sphere Grid levels 1-100. Each Grid gives rewards to players such as one time only glamour or mounts. Add random tiers that offer in store currency. Add another tier 1-100 for extra rewards that players must purchase.

In order to level up your Sphere level, you must partake in activities which switch every major patch. Similar to the mog events, where you get more tokens for alliance raids, but this MUST include over world activities to bring life back to zones. Such as farming FATES, killing certain mobs. So each patch the Grid level is focused on certain things such as crafting, gathering, hunts etc.. not sure.

I just desperately want MID CORE CONTENT. Something to grind for and keep me coming back. This can be something that runs parallel.

I'd also love the idea of say level 50/100 Grid you get a key, this key allows you to do a 1v1 fight. Like a Bozja duel. This gives you a title and some cool gear sets/weapon. Say the level 50 gives you the un-glowy gear and the level 100 gives you glowy.

I'm sure they can combine the mog events, pvp rewards, mogpendium to create something like this.

What do you all think?

[Liyinabi]

Please don't give the devs ideas. I don't want to pay for a battle pass in a game I already bought and pay a sub for, and there's no way the suits at SE would allow store currency to get handed out like that in a free battle pass.

I think a system like this is good on paper for engagement, but it would just force players to engage with content they don't even enjoy doing out of the fear of missing out on the rewards, and would probably lead to burnout in the long run. It also just actively goes against this Yoshi-P's apparent philosophy of letting people just kind of do the content they want to and take their time with things, so it seems kind of unlikely.

We already kind of see a microcosm of this whenever the PvP series is about to end and people rush to get the rewards before they're gone. People flood into CC/Frontlines when they don't even enjoy the content, act unhappy because they are unhappy (and spread their negative vibes in Frontlines chat while they're at it,) and then many get burnt out on PvP until the next series is just about to end.

[Jeeqbit]

Well they don't want to pressure people to play that much. The game is very much that you can just not really play for 3 months then come back, clear extreme, unreal, prog some savage, progress your relic step and queue pvp once a day for 1 month just to catch up on the patch content.

They do add grinds for people who want them, such as for mounts or relic weapon steps. But as we know, when relic steps take even a tiny little bit of time to grind FATEs, the forum gets filled with complaints about how it takes them more than a day to farm FATEs and CEs. Imagine how much they'd complain about your suggestion?

[MoonNoire]

Do we get the Floss in the first battle pass?

[Kranel_San]

I'd like to believe that if they ever implement a battle pass, then it would be identical to the PvP pass but designed for PvE play and is 100% free without purchases required.

That being said, I doubt they'll implement a free one. I don't have faith in SE to pull this one out.

[Aonns]

Please no. Battle Passes are the gateway to microtransactions. We already pay a sub.

[ViinaS]

If they want to keep people engaged then they should put in meaningful content that is not done after 2 weeks of a 5-month patch cycle or RN Fate grinds.

This is no F2P MMO where the devs get away with a battlepass.
This is an MMO that is expac box price + monthly sub, and it struggles already with keeping people subbed cause there is so little to do each patch.

[CCheshire]

Honestly, I don't want a paid battle pass in ffxiv for any reason since I already had to buy the base game, future expansions, along with a monthly sub to access the game.

We just have PVP battle pass already, also I wish ppl would define what "midcore" meant in the post, vs I don't like being casual.

[Grimforth]

Seriously. What is it with players wanting to to add garbage systems from other games in this one thinking it will make the game better when it really won't.

[Yharnie]

I totally understand that.

I myself think of a mid core player who invests lots of time into the game but doesn't have in super difficult content, for example savages and ultimates. This person would be interested in something like Bozja and getting all the notes, or someone who wants to all cards for triple triad. Something that can be long form, fun and engaging.
That's why I think a battle pass system could flesh out some concerns about dawntrail not having any mid core content. The new field op tried but ultimately failed as its not fun or rewarding and the raid is too difficult. Bozja was the perfect mid core content.

Edit* I forgot about the cosmic exploration. That was a good attempt tbh.