Sortie revamped

[Eth]

The Gallimaufry multiplier for days skipped, up to a 5, or even 7, for once weekly Gallimaufry farming, would be the perfect solution for Sortie. There is literally no downside to it and only advantages, for the players and for SE.

Daily Sortie is a soul-crushing grind. It has alienated many long-time players who would like to pursue Prime Weapons and +3 items for their 10+ jobs, but cannot sink 1-2 hours daily, for the rest of their mortal existence, into this. (Including gathering time, looking for members / static members being late, one nominal hour easily becomes 2 hours.) Among players who have completed a prime weapon, burnout is high.

If anyone from SE is actually reading this: the inscription on stage 2 prime weapons, "slowly devours your soul", describes Sortie. The time requirements and the sheer repetitiveness make Sortie the worst content you have created in a very long time. It's almost designed to drive players away from FFXI.

Player fun is of course not your priority. You're a business, and you want to maximize subscriptions - as many as you can get, for as long as you can get them. However, current Sortie does not serve your profit interests. It made, and is making, people give up on FFXI, because the final goal of making prime weapons is out of reach and simply not compatible with having a real life for many players with jobs and families.

Allowing one Sortie run per week with 7x the Gallimaufry reward would require people to maintain a monthly subscription, just like the current system, and would not make the time gate component of completing prime weapons any shorter.

The only difference is that many would come back to FFXI and you would be selling more subscriptions. Please reconsider the current system. It makes no sense from a business point of view.