Originally Posted by
Physic
it aint your portal.
heres what happened, people who are good at organizing and leading people created a hierarchy by which you can spend 1-4 hours waiting for them to allow you to do a BA attempt.
this is not by game design, you are not supposed to be waiting 1-4 hours, and trying to get into one instance. The content does not require it in order to succeed. If the same number of players was in game instead of waiting, they could attempt BA 1-3 times in the same time they were waiting in discord and kugane and server hopping.
as people learned the mechanics, and got better at instructing people and leading, roughly 1/3rd of the attempts would succeed.
this means in the same time frame, you would get more fragments and a similar amount of successes.
how do i know this? because this is what happens in japan when they play with that paradigm. Because in guild wars within a month of the new World Event, people are beating it more than half the time, within two months, its usually on farm. People are not incapable of learning. I'm sorry I dont believe the entire culture of NA FFXIV players is less intelligent than the average player in any other game.
basically the point is discordians created a system that sucks for many players, that sufferring which is self inflicted, does not justify being jerks to people who play as intended. The content is designed to be equally open to any player who is around when the run happens, organized or not. The design team went out of their way to make this the case. They didnt want this to be an elite structured event that only a few people in certain circles can participate in.