Can't make a full premade for Crystal Tower...

[Verius_Nox]

It's posts like this that are the reason I wish SE would just shut down the forums. It goes like this.

1. Devs post or say something

2. ADHD community spins it so they have something to butthurt over

3. People read the butthurt and ignore what the devs said. Butthurt expands exponentially.

4. Butthurt is accepted as fact.

Stop it. Learn the whole story before you throw a tantrum.

It's rather hard to spin it when they say "You can not form an alliance. You enter with a party of 8."

[Lum]

This is just another slap in the face to anyone trying to run a FC and plan for future content. There is zero reason to join a FC at this this point when a static LS of 8 will get the job done. I'm just gonna assume at this point that we wont ever get any content that will require more than 8 people to complete at the end game level.

[AjoraOak]

Well, I find it strange people are so upset in a way just because CT was junk to begin with... but yeah, for those trying to make a FC 24man capable with intent of running CT in prep for Coils (rather than making them farm philo), big slap I suppose.

[LiadansWhisper]

I'm extremely disappointed by this. :-\ It pretty much kills my desire to raid CT.

[Trunks]

I'm glad I stuck with the monthly subscription. What an incredible disappointment, and such a waste of this game's potential.

[Mirakumi]

My idea is that SE realized that making Crystal Tower a 24 man FC was a mistake considering the after content, Coil, is an 8 man PT. Telling a new formed FC to cut ties of their 24 man and sort them out by favoritism for Coil content is silly. This new system of bringing 8 people in will secure that static party and help them brace up for Coil.

Please Note:

VENT/TEAMSPEAK/MUMBLE/Raidcall - Might not be accessible to these other 16 players and they might be uncooperative.

OR

This could bring the community together in someways and alliances with other FC's across servers or in your own server.

We don't know this yet so we will have to wait.

I guess what they want is for players to be more open minded and trying to bring together the community together.

In FFXI being grouped with random people was what they had to do to win. [FFXI had a strong community]

In FF14 Crystal Towers, players will experience the everyday life of FFXI grouping and they will either hate or love it.

[Jinrya-Geki]

I find it weird that some people are ok with this? Have you not played very long with friends with this? I always felt bad that not everyone could join in events because of it being 4-8 man in the linkshell.

The only reason I can see Crystal Tower being 8-man party then the rest duty finder is to make it a pseudo-difficulty. It would be harder to do it because of communication, not everyone use mumble, Ventrilo, etc. It's easier to recover from a mistake when someone can tell you rather than sending a message via party chat.

[Swishytail]

So because Coil is 8-man we should just make everything 8-man? What kind of thought process is that?
May as well just make the entire game 8-man and have 1,000 FCs with 8 people in each of them on all
the servers. What's the point otherwise?

[Mirakumi]

So because Coil is 8-man we should just make everything 8-man? What kind of thought process is that?
May as well just make the entire game 8-man and have 1,000 FCs with 8 people in each of them on all
the servers. What's the point otherwise?

If they were going to make anything 24 man content it should be AFTER coil not before and have them cut away people for it.
Edit:
It makes no sense for it to be 24 -> 8 man Pt. It should have been 8 man PT -> 24 people.

[Verius_Nox]

In FFXI being grouped with random people was what they had to do to win. [FFXI had a strong community]

That same exact formula would not work with the communities of today.