Sorry Yoshi, but if you award the best weapon in the game by winning the lottery...

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

@OP. i280 by your own admission is the best weapon in the game because it has the best stats. However what is the point of having such high stats when there is literally nothing in the game, not now or in stormblood, that requires you to have stats this high.

For all intents and purposes, this weapon has no actual use, other than to show that you got really really lucky and probably wasted a lot of time.

That said, I think the developers could have released this content with 275 weapons and had chance to obtain one be a little better and I think this whole fiasco would have been avoided and you might have more people enjoying the content instead of ragequitting.

Personally, I won't be participating in this content at all because I have no desire to play the lottery when the cost of entry is 1hr of my time. I'm perfectly satisfied being i270 with my anima weapon for stormblood launch. I'll continue to log in and do zhloe each week and work on side projects like leveling up my desynthing and crafting stuff for my house.

As yoshi-p says, people need to calm down.

[Xerek]

As yoshi-p says, people need to calm down.

If i280 isn't supposed to matter, if it isn't supposed to be desirable, why is it even in the game?

Yoshi-P can tell people to calm down, but he didn't throw two million gil and countless hours of his life away on a weapon that was supposed to be BiS until SB, only to see it upstaged a mere nine days after completion.

[ShinMetsu]

The only reason I made an anima was because it, like the relic, was going to be BiS from completion to SB. They killed that after nine days. All of that effort, the countless hours, the couple million gil, all of it was a complete waste. And SE did so just to bait people into their awful new Diadem. Yes, there is a lot of good to the game, but I could have spent the wasted time with my family and friends. I could have spent it on something fun. I was duped out of a lot of time, and that's hard to overlook or forgive.

I'm sorry, but i feel like there's much wrong here. Much obvious too.
You go and do something you do not enjoy, to be BiS for Stormblood, which is gonna last until.. level 65 most likely?
Now you complain that you could be BiS until 67? Not even full BiS, only the weapon BiS until 67.
I feel like something is wrong here, but not judging, it is your time, your choice.
But then again, you chose to ditch Friends and Family so you could force yourself farm a virtual item to be BiS for level 60-65.
I feel like it's wrong, cheap and dirty to go around and blame any of that on SE now.

If i280 isn't supposed to matter, if it isn't supposed to be desirable, why is it even in the game?

Yoshi-P can tell people to calm down, but he didn't throw two million gil and countless hours of his life away on a weapon that was supposed to be BiS until SB, only to see it upstaged a mere nine days after completion.

Now, 90% of the players will most likely not get their weapon, even if they try.
Which in return does keep the Relic relevant, even if it is slightly weaker than the 280 Diadem.
But at the same time, it does give Diadem more purpose, it does give people something to work towards to.
People need goals, it's an important part of mmos.

And for those that do get it, it's just a fancy toy to mess around with. That is all.
You might get some new pushes when speed running.
Some might go harder, some might take it easy.
But it's new stuff to do, new goals to bridge the gap until stormblood.
It literally doesn't change anything besides speed runs and your epeen.

And in a way, I'm happy they did it.
We don't have much content where pretty much anyone can participate, and where people come together like this.
I feel that part is nice and refreshing, it kind of brings people together.

[Miste]

You go and do something you do not enjoy, to be BiS for Stormblood, which is gonna last until.. level 65 most likely?
Now you complain that you could be BiS until 67? Not even full BiS, only the weapon BiS until 67.

Erm...where did he say any of this in the post you quoted? He just said he expected anima to be BiS weapon from the last step completion UNTIL SB. He never said "during SB", he said it was supposed to be BiS until SB launch day.

Which is how the relic was in ARR. It was the best weapon from completion until HW launched.

I feel like it's wrong, cheap and dirty to go around and blame any of that on SE now.

I feel like this^ is way over the top. You don't need to exaggerate like he stole money out of his best friend's wallet or something just because he voiced his criticism to SE, as a paying customer, that he didn't like something that they did.