why are minion drops so rare?

[Ashkendor]

well, there goes that. Were there really any minions out of reach for most players other than plushie and OST promo ones?

INC flood of all dungeon minions from heavensward, time to kick yourself for spending any gil on a minion before this change.

Nooooo now everyone can have my special shinies!!

[zosia]

Nooooo now everyone can have my special shinies!!

"I can finally have stuff because I am too lazy to work for it."

[Zojha]

"I can finally have stuff because I am too lazy to work for it."

In other words: Put everything exclusively in the cash shop?

So you have to "actually" work in order to get something and not just sit in front of the computer, playing a game?

[FriendlyUncle]

I don't understand why something so incredibly useless is so rare. It's a collectable. I don't see why people are getting up in arms about this. We aren't talking about BiS gear here. We are talking about a little thing that follows you around and flops on the ground occasionally. Are you really gonna bitch and cry freebie over a minion vs battle equipment. We all ready have to grind for everything in the game, DoL/DoH/DoW/DoM gear, TT, Chocobo Race, Saucer tokens. Not everything needs to be a mindless, repetitive grind. It seems to me the only ones whining and crying about drop rate increase are people that have them and/or are making gil from the sale of said minions. And with easier access to them they lose income.

We all ready get stuck running Alwaysreap 10000 times for armor, why is everyone so eager and gleeful to repeat this process for a minion. Half the reason I don't bother with it is they serve no purpose, and require me to run the same dungeon repeatedly for no reward.

And tbh who the hell didn't see this coming with a full mini game solely involving minions?

[Welsper59]

I don't understand why something so incredibly useless is so rare. It's a collectable. I don't see why people are getting up in arms about this. We aren't talking about BiS gear here. We are talking about a little thing that follows you around and flops on the ground occasionally. Are you really gonna bitch and cry freebie over a minion vs battle equipment. We all ready have to grind for everything in the game, DoL/DoH/DoW/DoM gear, TT, Chocobo Race, Saucer tokens. Not everything needs to be a mindless, repetitive grind. It seems to me the only ones whining and crying about drop rate increase are people that have them and/or are making gil from the sale of said minions. And with easier access to them they lose income.

We all ready get stuck running Alwaysreap 10000 times for armor, why is everyone so eager and gleeful to repeat this process for a minion. Half the reason I don't bother with it is they serve no purpose, and require me to run the same dungeon repeatedly for no reward.

And tbh who the hell didn't see this coming with a full mini game solely involving minions?

People have different reasons to play an MMORPG. Some of us, myself included, couldn't care less about top tier endgame raiding gear, for example. I've played this genre long enough to have experienced that stuff time and time again between different games. It's the same dance every single time. But enjoyment and goals can be found elsewhere. Since I started the genre, a goal I've always had is to make a good income through it with crafting/gathering, assuming the game has a decent system about it. I currently own an L house in this game and tons of other unnecessarily expensive goods. It's all just a part of my long term goal in the game.

It's very easy to create a game within the game and impose a goal for yourself. Some folks find fishing fun here and want to complete the log, most may not. Some want to obtain minions for collection, many may not care. Just as people want challenge for their combat related activities, so too do people seek this challenge in other ways they find fun. It's reasonable to argue for the want of a long term goal for some things like vanity goods. Think of it like the old school mentality of how you needed to do something specific to get some bonus item or costume. Maybe you had to complete the game in X time to obtain it. These days, you'd get those goods immediately through DLC, removing the fun and challenge of getting it the old way.

Mind you, I'm not saying that the buff to rates that are incoming is a bad thing. Just stating why people like the grind.

[Avidria]

"I can finally have stuff because I am too lazy to work for it."

So increasing droprates equates to them handing things out for free now, and mashing your head against a wall of rng qualifies as work?

What?