Grand Company Update?

What it says on the tin. Aren't we kind of overdue for an update to the Grand Companies? There's still so much more the game could do with 'em, and the previous update we got was all the way back in Stormblood.

Thanks for considering! :D

We got some in 2018-2019 or something. Was that not enough?
/s

It's just one of those abandoned features. Sad.

*looks wistfully at my squadron*
It was a good run...
*locks door*
*walks away*
*muffled screaming*

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Originally Posted by Sotaris

We got some in 2018-2019 or something. Was that not enough?
/s

It's just one of those abandoned features. Sad.

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Already pointed this out in my original post :P

But yeah, things sure aren't looking too good.

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Originally Posted by Sotaris

We got some in 2018-2019 or something. Was that not enough?
/s

It's just one of those abandoned features. Sad.

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Except they've stated that they only want to add new GC ranks when they have something significant to add to it.

Like the addition of squadrons and the update to it. This system was then used as groundwork for trusts.

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Originally Posted by Nezerius

Except they've stated that they only want to add new GC ranks when they have something significant to add to it.

Like the addition of squadrons and the update to it. This system was then used as groundwork for trusts.

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Tbf that just sounds like an excuse... but even if it isn't, there's a damn lot of untapped potential for new GC stuff.

How about adding in new tiers of Allied/GC Seals that you can only obtain from hunting/turning in lvl 90/100/whatever gear and above?

MFW seeing GC update on patch note
https://i.imgur.com/IgMyx.gif?noredirect

As a 1.0 vet, I always felt like there's so much more that they could and should've done with Grand Companies. There's so much potential there and they could literally tie in other parts of the game with the Grand Company system.

1) Back in 1.0 we used to have Faction Leves, where iirc, a group of us that had accepted the same leve, went out and would slay a big NM. Why not take the old Battle leve system and incorporate that into the Grand Company system, giving us something like Missives to do? And in doing so, the player(s) earn rewards and/or points to go toward purchasing things like crafting materials, minions, rare rewards, and so on.

2) Founder's Day Seasonal Event. This was an event we had back towards the end of 1.xx to celebrate the founding of the Grand Companies. I think at the most players got like a certain amount of Grand Company seals. This event disappeared after servers went down and we haven't seen anything of the sort again. Why not bring this back with boosts to earn more seals and of course grander rewards?

The trouble is, the Grand Companies are now rather obsolete both story wise and gameplay wise, as they played a far greater role in 1.0 and early ARR where they were a means of consoldiating the resources of the three cities in order to meet the Garlean threat head on, but fell into irrelevance as the player's character drifted away from "adventurer working for a citystate" to "member of Scions of the Seventh Dawn, Primal slayer and Hydaelyn's champion", which basically transcends any individual city.

And with EW basically amalgamating the three Grand Companies into one as "the Grand Company of Eorzea", it's even more irrelevant now sadly.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

The trouble is, the Grand Companies are now rather obsolete both story wise and gameplay wise.

And with EW basically amalgamating the three Grand Companies into one as "the Grand Company of Eorzea", it's even more irrelevant now sadly.

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I'd personally see stuff like this as more of a writing challenge than anything else.

In fact, it would play almost perfectly into my previously posted idea of introducing flashy new Allied/Grand Company Seals to serve as rewards for completing lvl 90/100/etc tasks.

All you gotta do is roll with the punches.