Quote Originally Posted by RiyahArp View Post
That last table is pretty illuminating. The game really struggles to get players to complete its 8 man raids. The JP servers have much higher clear rates, but this needs to be balanced with the fact that it's much more hardcore to do a traditional MMO there, and there are less options of its kind overall for them. But SE really seems to consistently fail with getting NA and EU overall successfully through the raids.

Oh, and ultimate savage was just gordias version 2. That's the same amount of clears if I remember for it, which means we have a pretty decent skill ceiling for "too hard" in this game.
Having few people getting through raids is not unique to FFXIV. Raiders are a small (but highly visible and vocal) minority in most MMOs.