Dear YoshiP, please stop misusing the word "raid".

[Greed]

raid definition:
–noun

-a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.


-Military . a sudden attack on the enemy, as by air or by a small land force.

-a vigorous, large-scale effort to lure away a competitor's employees, members, etc.
EXPAND

verb (used with object)

-to make a raid on.

-to steal from; loot: a worry that the investment fund is being raided.

-to entice away from another: Large companies are raiding key personnel from smaller companies.
EXPAND

verb (used without object)

-to engage in a raid.

—Synonyms
1. seizure. 2. incursion, invasion, inroad.

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World English Dictionary
raid (reɪd)

— n
1. a sudden surprise attack: an air raid
2. a surprise visit by police searching for criminals or illicit goods: a fraud-squad raid

— vb
3. to make a raid against (a person, thing, etc)
4. to sneak into (a place) in order to take something, steal, etc: raiding the larder

[C15: Scottish dialect, from Old English rād military expedition; see road ]

[Seirra_Lanzce]

this thread should closed down.. <__<

[giftforce]

But really, what's the point of even adopting a word when you are using it improperly?

The only justification for intellectual property theft/infringement should be for convenience of expression. For example, raid is a common word that everyone understands so it stands to reason that companies would use the word to explain a new system if that system bore similarities to the original. But the way FFXIV uses it is quite simply misrepresentation. They might as well be original if they are going to vandalise the accepted meaning of the term like they so obviously are.

[Rinsui]

@OP
Teach us poor, uninformed souls.

[Radaghast]

Raids go back farther than WoW, it's a term people are used to across many other MMO's that feature content for multiple groups. Hence why the confusion a single group instance is called a raid.

[KumaAkuma]

this thread should closed down.. <__<

Why? What's wrong with asking for the proper use of game terminology?

[Black_Rose]

what's wrong with using the term raid?
game terminology aside it's a very fitting term to describe the upcoming dungeons.
as we have non-instanced dungeons allready it's fair to call the instanced dungeons raid dungeons, could also say instanced dungeons, but as we require a minimum of either 4-8 people to enter the dungeons i think raid is a very fitting word.
your not entering the dungeons to do a picnic, you enter to raid them with your group.
the term raid works for both small/big groups up to alliances, i don't see whats wrong calling them raid dungeons.
random boredom before 1.18 comes?

[Delsus]

WoW did not invent the word raid, just because WoW uses the word doesnt mean anything else that does must be a clone.

Guess what, ffxiv is not WoW and to be fair if ffxiv ends up a WoW clone then I will quit because WoW is the worse game I have ever seen, god knows how they got so many subs.

[giftforce]

WoW did not invent the word raid, just because WoW uses the word doesnt mean anything else that does must be a clone.

Guess what, ffxiv is not WoW and to be fair if ffxiv ends up a WoW clone then I will quit because WoW is the worse game I have ever seen, god knows how they got so many subs.

While that is true, why must FFXIV insist on using the word 'raid' when they probably own a freaking thesaurus full of alternatives? If they're going to apply the industry-terminology in a new way, they probably ought to think of a new term.

[Seif]

Why can't they just use the terminology from Farmville as they're clearly out of their own ideas to use?

Even better why not invent their own type of content for this game? Oh yeah I guess everyone is past such high hopes for SE at this point, so maybe the best people can hope for is for them to mimic other games?