1- the article isnt even right , go check abriael's one

2- most current mmo got a fatigue system as well , and plenty people dont even bother stopping playing because of the decreased XP . What matter is how much is said decrease .

HGell it was irrelevant in WoW , even without resting the character .

It doesn't penalize players, it just stops rewarding them. HUGE difference.

As for this explanation: "No one could train ad nauseam in the real world with no ill effects" it's quite a stretch. I used to be a competitive swimmer, and we'd train over 24 hours a week. A game, where real world rules don't apply, would limit you to 8 to make it more realistic? Right...

That's just undefendable. Most mmo's use a 'well rested' system so if you havn't been playing as much as the next guy, the next time you arrive online your getting your boosted % of exp. = leveling out the playing field (to a degree at least).

I wasn't ever going to buy the game but it's just common sense. People don't buy mmo's for the short term. Should call it an STMORPG. (ShortTimeMultiplayerOnlineRPG ).

Wasn't the last FF mmo terrible for value? Some things never change.

Ha ha! And all you sycophants will still buy this crap! You will pay good money to have a game maker tell the gamer how to play what you pay hard earned money for! And you call pirates stupid! If any of you had any sort of balls, you would totally boycott this turd!

Maybe they are doing this until the PS3 version is released. So the PS3 players won't feel so behind. And then with a new version update, it will get uncapped. Either way, FFXI is my last MMO game.

This whole system seems to be for lack of a better term retarded. This seems like double talk to the enth degree. " In FFXIV "lingo" the class experience is called "weapon skill" or simply "skill" and the physical experience is called "experience". Class leveling and physical leveling are separate in FFXI, and every time you do any kind of action, you'll get an amount of class "skill" points and physical "experience" point.

So yeah, switching classes won't influence your physical "experience" (which grows MUCH faster than class experience or "skill" anyway, so it isn't a problem), but it will recharge your "skill" gaining rate. Which is basically your class experience, it's just called "skill" in proper FFXIV lingo"." The fact remains after a period of time I will no longer gain exp on my character progression. sure i can skill up but skill lack in importance to exp. so what if i can learn SATA if because my lvl is low it only does 3 damage. I really loved ffxi and want to like xiv but its really getting difficult to get behind this broken system!!!

I think its a great idea & am still going to get this day 1. I dont play much anyways, I actually have somewhat of a life still :P

lvl 9 PSN btw xD