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Originally posted by Sutra
I never said the AF armour quest should be easier, I actually said I dont mind it being hard, even really long and drawn out hard, but expecting someone to gather 15 people that are WAY higher level than you to get *each* piece is ludicrous. They dont always say "we cater to the casual gamer" but in fact it is inferred ad promoted. From my experience in the industry (and any other one that wants repeat business and to make money) the casual gamer is the key to profits, not the hardcore gamers. As I mentioned before the HC gamers will play the game, max out their level in a week or 2, play it another week, get bored, go to pk mode, if that gets boring they quit. It is a scientific cycle I saw all the time. [/b] |
This so-called scientific cycle is only caused by companies who release incomplete games hoping that people won't reach it to the end game content before they are ready to make it up. FFXI was out for 1.5 years before it was released to NA, the end game is good enough for all.
As far as I can tell, if you want to be a casual gamer, you have to accept some limitations, you will still be able to do most of your AF stuff with a party of 55s or 60s so you can wait until then, with the break50 break55 break60 etc there are generally several people already in drop areas trying to get it so you can tag along and help. My linkshell has a set group of 56s in it now, as far as I can tell they had no outside help with AF1-AF3 but they seem to be suceeding at getting their coffer keys etc.
As for summoner, stop bringing this up it's been mentioned time and time again in this thread that the summoner class is broken and will need to be reworked before you (or anyone) sees it properly playable by a NA player. (ie. someone who hasn't been playing for 1.5 years)