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[HyoMinPark]

I think it's fine. For something that so few participate in, I'd say their time is better spent elsewhere.

I would disagree. The people that want a challenge should at least get one in a game that caters massively to softcore players, and I wouldn’t say that the people that have cleared an Ultimate and/or are progging it are happy to see it go on hiatus. Since Savage is going to stay at the Delta/Sigmascape level and effectively become midcore, I’d like a hardcore option for content.

It's not them not having the resources, it's them hearing feedbacks about an ultimate each odd patch beign rough

Yoshida: We were originally planning to have an ultimate fight for each "odd numbered patch", but after observing the reactions from the community, there were a lot of opinions saying "Having an ultimate fight every 2 patches is too rough", so we changed our minds and thought 2 ultimate fights per expansion might be better, so i think the ultimate series will be on hiatus for now.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._bad_news_for/

I’m curious to know if this was said on the JP forums, or where it was even said. Because I haven’t seen this reasoning on the NA forums.

[RiyahArp]

I’m curious to know if this was said on the JP forums, or where it was even said. Because I haven’t seen this reasoning on the NA forums.

Not sure if its a matter of saying. It looked like even on the NA side interest was less, and I noticed raiders breaking their taboo of waiting till 4 groups cleared for clear videos, they seemed to come out the next day after world first. My guess is that they saw participation was fewer and asked the JP to be sure.

[Remedi]

I’m curious to know if this was said on the JP forums, or where it was even said. Because I haven’t seen this reasoning on the NA forums.

Well our forum had in the past some arguments about ultimate beign kinda a waste which I disagreed upon, anyway in the thread has a part where some JP comments were taken from a JP live blog, to my eyes the ones professing beign ok with this have usually more dislikes than likes, which might mean that the sentiment is not shared with the community
However the comment citing that it would be better having an ultimate only for x.1 and x.5 patches has got some likes, as the comment saying that it makes no sense to not release an ultimate in the lowest part of activity of an expansion (patch x.5) which is interesting as a position imho

[Azper]

I would disagree. The people that want a challenge should at least get one in a game that caters massively to softcore players, and I wouldn’t say that the people that have cleared an Ultimate and/or are progging it are happy to see it go on hiatus. Since Savage is going to stay at the Delta/Sigmascape level and effectively become midcore, I’d like a hardcore option for content.

That's fine. SE appears to have already made up their mind, though. They feel 2 Ultimate battles per expansion is enough and I agree with them.

[HyoMinPark]

That's fine. SE appears to have already made up their mind, though. They feel 2 Ultimate battles per expansion is enough and I agree with them.

Maybe I misunderstood you, but when you said “their time is better spent elsewhere”, I interpreted you as meaning the raiders’ time not the developers. It’s fine if you agree with only two Ultimates; I was just disagreeing with the above statement in the way I interpreted it.