Quote Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor View Post
And yet one could argue 5% of people liked Lord of Verminion. I know plenty who did. Your stance is to remove content that only a small portion of the population likes, but you could cherry pick most aspects of FFXIV in separated doses and those percentages wouldn't be high. How many people enjoy crafting, especially hardcore crafting? Probably within the 5-15% range-- equivalent to raiders. Should we remove it too because that clearly isn't catering to the majority interest?

Most MMOs are devised of small subgroups of players whose interests fall under certain areas. They won't like everything-- possibly not even half the overall content. But what they do like keeps them playing. If you start trying to only focus on one or two groups, you'll inevitably chase away far more players in the long run. Consider the implications no more raids would have. That impacts crafter since why bother buying expensive gear you'll never need? Dungeons may feel more repetitive because it's all we have from a gameplay perspective now. You can't simply look at raiding and say, "well, only x% actually do this. So we can cut it out with no harm done." I suspect you'd be very surprised how even fights like the extreme primals impact the game..
Pardon me, but I have never once said for them to remove raiding. At all. I understand there is a request for raiding and I'm fine with that. What I stated is that I wish they would realize that raiding is not the end all, be all of endgame. That's all. And the fact that there is a small percentage of raiders proves that the main core of the players does not think raiding is worth it, fun, or a useful place to sink their time in.

5% for LoV is very very generous. I would say less than that. Far less. I have absolutely NO idea where LoV came out of, really. Like I said previously, I think it was some sort of April Fools joke that people actually said "Yeah, that looks cool." Every time I go on Sargatanas and in the LoV area, it's pretty empty. As in, barely anyone in there playing. I'd be surprised if I've seen 5 people in that area any given night.

Your post is set in the manner that I stated to remove raiding. I never said that. I fully understand that the raiding scene is still prominent. But it is dying. It's not as popular as it was in the past, and that's because of a number of reasons. All I ask is for more endgame and not always raids. Be interesting with your endgame. Not just the standard "Raids raids and more raids!"

Palace of the Dead is a good step, if they don't Diadem it. We'll see if that will sate me. I'm cautiously optimistic.