FFXIV: The State Of Raiding

[Thayos]

It completely flip-flops the effort-to-target-audience ratio. Given that resources are finite and raid development, from all we've seen, is particularly costly, it results in the developers putting a significant amount of time and effort into developing end-game content for a small part of the end-game population and a small amount of time and effort into developing end-game content for a significant part of the end-game population.

This is why the Diadem was such a letdown...

We already know these devs are short on resources, and Diadem was an opportunity to install the infrastructure for a form of endgame that could have been expanded over the rest of the game's life. I feel like that kind of innovation is critical for the game's long-term health. Otherwise, XIV will always be gimped by an endgame that caters to such a small percentage of players.

[Kimimoto]

We already know these devs are short on resources

With them being so short on resources they should really turn Void Ark into a real raid. It's just being wasted as a catch up raid. It's going to drop i230 I imagine, so the only people who are going to take the gear are alt classes or people who can't be bothered to get capped. I doubt either alts/lazy persons are really into raiding. Therefore make Void Ark into a real raid that drops i235 gear that would be relevant to raiding Savage. Then you would have an actually difficulty curve in the game, not just Expert Roulette --> Sepphy Ex/Savage.

Also making gear matter again, that's a huge incentive for a lot of Raiders. Do these catch up patches even matter? Are they really catching people up for Savage? If that's not true they're catching people who can't do/won't do Savage for nothing. Sepphy EX weapons became obsolete in a month and a half because they're not atleast i230 with good secondaries. With a free i230 tome weapon Sepphy EX instantly becomes irrelevant content instead of a stepping stone to Savage. Stop wasting content please.

Squeenix it's alright if some people can't complete PvE content, it gives them something to work at instead of getting capped each week and logging off. Maybe we shouldn't set the standard to if Yoshi can do expert on his BLM, and set it to something that will challenge players a bit.

[madolyn]

With them being so short on resources they should really turn Void Ark into a real raid. It's just being wasted as a catch up raid. It's going to drop i230 I imagine, so the only people who are going to take the gear are alt classes or people who can't be bothered to get capped. I doubt either alts/lazy persons are really into raiding. Therefore make Void Ark into a real raid that drops i235 gear that would be relevant to raiding Savage. Then you would have an actually difficulty curve in the game, not just Expert Roulette --> Sepphy Ex/Savage.

I feel like 24 man raids should have been introduced as a stepping stone to the 8 player raids /savage and not released on odd patch numbers as catch up