Unofficial Census 2016 for FFXIV

[zosia]

Semantics, I guess. To me, this is like saying you lost air because someone else started breathing. Raiders didn't lose the story, it's just tha tmore people now have access to it. As for when they release normal, I have no opinion on that. You'd have to ask SE why they release normal and savage at the same time. My guess is that they don't want to leave the largest portion of their playerbase behind - the non-raiders, but who knows?

I don't think you get how much more awesome a story is when you have to work week after week to get all the cut scenes. With midas normal, you get all the cut scenes day one. There is no epic build up. There is no epic feeling of triumph. There is literally a troll bard telling you it was harder than you remember.

When people say they lost the story, they lost all that I described. Midas normal is just like watching the cut scenes on youtube. It does not feel epic, it does not feel earned. It feels like some cheap trick, just like with HM and EX primals. Why even bother with a raid story at all at this point? That's what we lost.

There is a reason why LFR always had a late release in wow, blizz did not want to spoil the story or the raid for raiders. SE took a big steamy one on the raiding community going from coil to alex and there was never any concessions made to the raiders for it.