I have personally quit FFXIV multiple times due to the weird reward system that has been plaguing this game since 2.0. I'll give 2 examples but I'm sure most people can understand what I mean:
I remember grinding for 2 to 3 months straight to get my PVP rank to max just so I could wear the Rising Dragon set, which was only wearable if you achieved that feat. I thought the set was SO COOL and it showed how hard you worked and it meant something. Just by seeing someone with that set, you knew what they had spent their time on and it could even lead to a conversation in game.
Less than 1 month after all my grinding, they removed the rank requirement from the set and only required pvp currency. WHY?? What was the point???
This same sort of thing applies to a lot of mounts. Again, a trophy or sorts. Like hey guys, you worked really hard to grind out a mount from a EX trial? That's great, but we're going to just give it away so the mount has little to no meaning anymore. No backstory. You could have just received it from the Mog event or something, who cares anymore right?
tl;dr Trophies in this game are reduced to nothing of meaning and it turns the whole game into glamour bloat.
Do you have an example of where you felt screwed over by the re-release or freeing of a reward?
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I remember grinding for 2 to 3 months straight to get my PVP rank to max just so I could wear the Rising Dragon set, which was only wearable if you achieved that feat. I thought the set was SO COOL and it showed how hard you worked and it meant something. Just by seeing someone with that set, you knew what they had spent their time on and it could even lead to a conversation in game.
Less than 1 month after all my grinding, they removed the rank requirement from the set and only required pvp currency. WHY?? What was the point???
This same sort of thing applies to a lot of mounts. Again, a trophy or sorts. Like hey guys, you worked really hard to grind out a mount from a EX trial? That's great, but we're going to just give it away so the mount has little to no meaning anymore. No backstory. You could have just received it from the Mog event or something, who cares anymore right?
tl;dr Trophies in this game are reduced to nothing of meaning and it turns the whole game into glamour bloat.
Do you have an example of where you felt screwed over by the re-release or freeing of a reward?
Continue reading...