Design a fight contest!

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Oh oh! I have one I posted a long time ago!

Why does this sound like dynamis from FFXI?

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Why does this sound like dynamis from FFXI?

Yep. Yep.

In style at least - being a raid within the main cities is enough to contribute that feeling. I don't think it'd be a grind like Dynamis but the structure is similar to promote Free Companies (working together to fill a raid, or recruiting and organizing weekend raids).
It also would have the benefit of adding some strife to the "landscape" of Eorzea - you could structure it similar to the chain-FATEs and say it's similar to Campaign, Besiege, or Reclamation or any of those similar systems.

I think people panic and lash out when they think of FFXI - but I don't get why when you look at the content structure of Campaign, Nyzul, Besieged, Dynamis, Sky, Halvung, Salvage, and Limbus they were all cool content designs - the game was just built with a lot of inherent grind due to having little/no verticle progression,a lot of item-depth, and a huge array of stat configurations coupled with a slow EXP climb and menu-based combat. Slow pace - which we already know FFXIV isn't that slow.