Unofficial Census 2016 for FFXIV

[Remus]

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I'm not saying you can't get gear. You can get new pieces of gear but it shouldn't be on the level of raid gear. You shouldn't be rewarded the best loot for pretty much doing nothing except expert roulette and 24 man raids. You say it gets them more subs but currently there has been a decline so are they really getting more because of that? Raiders are leaving the game and Yoshi-p has said clearly he wants to make the raid community grow. If Raiders leave the game that means they are losing subs and with each patch cycle it seems the amount of people at current content is becoming smaller.

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Here is the problem though, It may have the highest item level for 3.2 but people already know they can get the highest by just waiting until 3.3 which makes people not bother for savage. The weapon might be 5 ilvl higher but people are not going to go through A8S just for 5 ilvl when that is just 1 weapon damage. You say Raiders lost nothing but your incorrect they lost exclusive story for raiding. Some people enjoyed raiding and progressing through coil to enjoy the story. Also if people are happy with just story why not just have Savage release first with story but then release normal mode in the catch up patch because that is all they care about.