Thoughts from a casual

[Lady]

any time you force players to stop leveling to do other things, for whatever reason, those are essentially artificial roadblocks to progression. while i don't disagree that it led to greater immersion and sense of adventure in XI, it's also a major reason why XI was never considered a commercial success and predominantly kept only a small niche of dedicated players happy over the years.

adventure and immersion are important, without a doubt- but i don't agree that artificial roadblocks are the answer. especially not when the game using artificial roadblocks as an example was never very successful itself.

I wouldn't say a game that has survived 10 years with enough players to sustain a P2P enviroment is a failure.

But as far as the "artificial roadblocks", to me they weren't that. I lvled to 18 to get my SJ, I lvl'd to 30 to get my adv job, I lvl'd to 40 to wear full RSE, I lvl'd to 60 to wear full AF. To me these were goals, not blocks.

[Zenaku]

I wouldn't say a game that has survived 10 years with enough players to sustain a P2P enviroment is a failure.

But as far as the "artificial roadblocks", to me they weren't that. I lvled to 18 to get my SJ, I lvl'd to 30 to get my adv job, I lvl'd to 40 to wear full RSE, I lvl'd to 60 to wear full AF. To me these were goals, not blocks.

NOPE ffxi pay itself x2 it pretty much what keep SE up and running to make FFXIV but they fail really bad. Here the problem with some people on here.

Some want casual and simple some want hardcore i don't see why we can't have both in a game i don't see the issue at all.


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You want Darklight sure do this dungeon and try and get it

Casual players: Would waste hours everyday hours they don't have to get it but they get token and can but the darklight a weak version but still good enough and i think that just what SE is doing with FFXIV so there you go if you don't want a weak version of that darklight i guess you work harder to you get it but 1-3 lower stats would really matter you still enjoy the gear and look nice you just wont have the best version.

I enjoy any gear i get even if it's 1-3 lower that better then working my ass off for 3week in a linkshell and getting out bid by other members. So it help both casual and hardcore still have something and keep up with other players a reward system for unlucky people