Need for 3rd tier of raiding

[Olympus]

How large do you think this number is? Is this an attempt to cater to the 1-5% of raiders in this game?

I guess we'll see how large the number is! SE brags about 6 million players, but we know that number is much lower.

There are over 8,000 players who cleared A8S and uploaded to FFlogs. I don't think they'll be satisfied with the difficulty of A12S, which took hardcore raiders 2 days to learn.

That's 1.3 million dollars worth of annual subscriptions from players who cleared A8S...seems like the development of a 3rd tier wouldn't cost that much!