What's your first impression of Eureka?

[Vstarstruck]

I think you are misdirecting my response so here.

Yes I think it was worth it.

See I do not get you, we had so meany delays, nothing to do .. during.. I forget the patch.. I think it was 2 months before sigma up to sigma things where slow and dry because they put too much resource time in this diadem 3.0 without giving people a relic to work on. We waited for so long for nothing, how is that worth it? We were givin a glorfied fate grid, they could of simply put this in diadem without the shinny element wheel and had the same effect without wasting all that time and resources.

"17 months of development" comes from the fact that Eureka was announced at the 2016 October Fanfest.

Here is the Famitsu interview (from 2016, again) with Yoshi-P where he talks about Eureka.

https://gamerescape.com/2016/11/15/f...-fan-festival/

So yes, they've had 17 months to get it right.

Included are certain gems such as:

Yoshida: It is the second expansion pack, and if we were to do the same thing all over again, a lot of people would get tired of it.

Yoshida: We did make adjustments to the Diadem after receiving feedback, but the thought process behind [Eureka and Diadem] is completely different.

Yoshida: Whatever the case is, it will be a content that doesn’t exist in FFXIV.

+1

You do not have to be in the instance for the full 3 hours to make progress. The nice thing about it is you can join and leave at your leisure. Unlike fates where if the zone is empty you can make no progress.

XP is definitely not front-loaded. Its 1k from 1-2, and 283k from 19-20. Its not bad at all, or else you wouldnt have a ton of people at 20 already.

that is because they no lifed it. It takes like 2 hours to get to level 2, dont go "well you should known to fate train on day 1" well we did not expect them to release a diadem 3.0, See Marluxia's post. Also you can't enter for 15-20 mins and feel progress like the HW relics. Most likely you leave with no progress at all attempting to be in there for 20 mins (may be different at max level) that is why it is backwards.

going back to :

And to get said books, took 10500 Mythology Tomestones. It was a hell of a grind. This is nothing in comparison, and actually fosters co-operation, where atma farming and animus books really didn't

So what? it is 15-20 mins a dungeon, you make no progress entering diadem 3.0 for that amount of time in one sitting.