Big news and controversy over Final Fantasy XIV’s “fatigue” system has spread across the internet. All this leading to complaints and even some apparent pre-order cancellations. If you haven’t heard Final Fantasy XIV includes a system which will limit the amount of experience you gain over time. This is based on a very convoluted threshold explanation that the game’s director, Nobuaki Komoto posted in the beta forums. The system is basically this: players can earn experience as long as they don’t exceed threshold limits. Once a threshold has been exceeded, experience earned is decreased, and they continue to decrease with every threshold exceeded. Eventually, you will earn no experience at all. These thresholds reset every week, and begins counting the moment you earn experience.
Though according to the explanation, decrease in experience also begins to recover when doing activities that don’t earn experience.
Its seems like to me Square-Enix is failing to see how MMO players play MMO’s, and then to limit that very same system seems rather ridiculous to me. Planning to charge full price for a game that you can only play some of the time seems rather atrocious. Is it just me or is this disconnected with how people actually play games?
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I have no idea at what points these thresholds are set nor do I care for MMOs myself, but maybe they’re just trying to make people in Korea not die from playing for a week straight.
This. Meph, they are taking precautions over the health risks present in the very way that hardcore MMO players DO play these games. They’re trying to cover their own asses, at the end of the day.
I think they are trying to avoid people canceling FFXI online because you level way faster in FFXIV without going to abyssea. Also I dont believe they have enough content for the release and if everyone leveled up really fast they would out level the 3 areas that are available in the game. Its annoying you should be able to level as much as you want. I get annoying because the enemies that are red are still to hard once you hit rank 10 so what the hell do you fight. It seems like naturally over time you wont be able to progress in the game.