Nabutso wrote:
Some players are still around from when some stuff happened to be easier (read: broken in a way that benefited players), but vast swathes of the game were broken in the opposite direction back then too.
For example, droprates were accidentally too high on some items, that included currency. Treasure Hunter was working incorrectly as well, giving it a greater effect. The number of people who significantly benefited from these things has always been small (you'd have had to be doing Dyna several years ago), and less and less of those players are still around. Also, it sounds like it has been exaggerated quite a bit.. 1 dyna run wasn't going to get you a relic, ever.
There has never been "intentional" widening of the gap, just fixes to stuff that happened to benefit people. You benefit from things now that future players may not benefit from as well - but that doesn't make what you do now illegitimate or outrageous, I think. For example, in the last maint, the choco license quest was finally fixed to old retail standards - you wait 1 game day between feeding the chocobo, instead of 1 minute.
Consider that we have daily dynamis lockouts now, something which nas could change at any time - you benefit from that now, but future players may not.
Don't fall for the sensationalism from players who are frustrated that things are more difficult now than they used to be. The server was not a fun time back then with zones constantly crashing, no one to play with (we're talking 1/10th the population) and although we'd all like for everything to have been just the same back then as it is now, things change, and will continue to change.
The latest "change" to "dynamis" (really just a bug with the claim system - which will be fixed THIS WEEK according to nas on facebook), is NOT intentional. Nas isn't trying to widen the gap. If anything, he tries very hard to affect higher level, affluent players more harshly than newer players trying to find their place (you missed it but last year around this time, nas tried to roll back ALL RELIC PROGRESS by 1 step for the entire playerbase.. and a few years ago nas removed 90% of ALL GIL in the economy.. etc).
Okay.
Is Dyna-Bubu farm going to get nerfed one way or the other soon, yes or no ?
Also loled at the "It might be harder to get a relic now but hey, the god damn chocobo licence is going to be super slightly more annoying to get now now than what it was when you got it, so hey, there is that!" part.