Thoughts on what the game needs to do

[RiyahArp]

That dungeon "no one cares to run" is better than content no one actually runs. Here is bancho's unofficial census data for who has cleared as of 1/27. Even if you multiplied it by a factor of ten for clears, on NA servers that's barely .5% of server population. (the last number on the right is clears.) Lamia has 7,387 people at level 70, and 2 people who cleared it then. Multiplying it ten fold makes it 20. If you multiply it a hundredfold, that's still barely any percent of the server's playerbase, and NA servers topped out at 92 then. on a server with 11k players at 70. That's the fourth highest total..

The numbers are inexact, but bancho is about as good a source as we have. Even if you gave a generous buffer, very few people will ever touch this content, especially on the NA end. Even on chocobo, if the ratio would hold, 10% of the savage playerbase has cleared it, and it goes steadily down from there percentage wise.

Even assuming much larger participation, this simply isn't going to be anything any real amount of players will do anything but watch. And other content seems to be the same thing; I don't see any real use of bard perform in cities, I don't see much interest in underwater missions, fashion report seems to only be done infrequently, and in general the side content really isn't exciting players.

And we can't build a game where a lot of the content is stuff people watch or just talk about infrequently.