Is there even a point to raising level caps?

[Arcell]

Well the only things I could think of were equipment and skills.

It would be strange, to me, to have a bunch of R50 equipment with only a few pieces being better than all the rest.

Introduction of new skills would be hard as then you'd just end up having slow progression in skills to R50 and then a ton bunched up at the end.

That being said these are minor problems that don't really cause any inconvenience, merely a small bit of confusion for players just reaching 50. I'd be fine with having gear like that and having quest/guild mark/company rewarded skills.

[gifthorse]

I will forever fail to see how fifty whole ranks is not enough grinding when there is scarcely anything to even do in-between the ranks, and then by the time you have completed your task and want to take it easy, they place a new artificial ceiling, forcing you to grind all over again.

I think there is a place for levelling up and fighting on mobs with no real reason for doing so other than to "get better". But Fifty is as good a number as any, imo.

[Arcell]

Take Guild Wars for example, you reached level 20 in Prophecies about 3/4 of the way through the story if you weren't really trying and you could get it much sooner if you were. In all the other campaigns you hit 20 before leaving the "starter" area lol. It never really struck anyone who enjoyed the game as odd or limiting.

The only problem I see with FFXIV is that I believe it was originally designed with a level cap raise in mind, and thus 50 was never meant to be the end-game rank and the current skills and equipment reflect that.

[gifthorse]

The only problem I see with FFXIV is that I believe it was originally designed with a level cap raise in mind, and thus 50 was never meant to be the end-game rank and the current skills and equipment reflect that.

I guess. For example, crafting-wise, we still have silk and basilik leather and darksteel and mythril and gold items yet to be released, but at R50 we have nowhere for these items to be implemented. We are out of tiers! And I'm not sure horizontal content really works for crafted gear like that.

That's really the only reason I can find to justify a raise in level cap, but even then it is scarcely much of a reason at all.

[Arcell]

Right, it's not even a huge reason it just ends in us having a bunch of crap bunched up at R50.

[gifthorse]

Right, it's not even a huge reason it just ends in us having a bunch of crap bunched up at R50.

I'm sure SE could still implement the gear in such a way that it still had a use, without the gear being overpowered. For example, a silk gown cowl could be useful for debuffing, a vintage robe could be useful for healing, etc., with neither really being better than the other.

[Shiyo]

They just need to do it like FFXI, raise the level cap before the first expansion, then keep it there forever. FFXI did it perfectly, I do NOT want WOW style of level cap increases. Having to level 10-5 levels every expansion and all old content becoming useless/waste of time is horrible.

I also want merits! Merits were a great idea, and gave me things to do with my gear other than "get more gear". Meriting was fun, one of the things I enjoyed most @ 75 ^-^

[Arcell]

I'm okay with raising the level cap, if only because 50 was never intended to be the final cap. Gifthorse makes a good point though, there are many ways you can progress outside of a simple rank increase. Knowing that, level cap increases do seem a bit arbitrary and honestly sometimes on the lazy side when a dev can't create unique and challenging content without discarding the old content.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

people who ask this question really shouldn't play games. No offence.
here is why:

pretty much, there will never be a "correct" answer to this question. So why ask it. If you have to think about this question, why even bother with leveling at all? why bothering playing at all?

In my opinion, I feel those who ask this question maybe take games a bit to seriously on a logical level. How about, this:
there is no point in doing anything in a video game. We play for entertainment.

[Abriael]

I wonder why people even think they're going to raise caps shortly. There has been absolutely no signal of that. It's quite obvious that they will be raised sooner or later, but it's not even on the radar at the moment.