FFXIV: The State Of Raiding

[Colt47]

snip for room...

Actually, it will fix the issue. This was done in some other lesser known titles in the past that failed for other reasons (Nexon... enough said) and the community loved it. It enabled groups to bring in people they knew needed to learn the fight still without impacting their own raiding schedules, and also let organizers make less intensive groups via shout out. Everyone got access to the same gear level and there was basically no grumbling about gear level because everyone, no matter how hardcore, could eventually get the gear. It was just faster to do so via the smallest group possible so tight nit groups (on balmung it would be RareEX), would still be the first to clear content and get it on farm. It worked a lot better than what the developers currently are doing, which is gating gear via time lock and making the highest level gear exclusive to a small niche part of the community.

After all the years of playing MMORPGs, exclusive content has always proven to be a fast track to making your community get angry. Case in point the recent maid outfit promotion being exclusive to Japan. Having content be exclusive to a set number of people due to time of release and difficulty does exactly the same thing, which is what is happening with savage versions of Alexander and even EX primal fights.