Any hopes to EVER get 8+ man content?

[Darkhaund]

My ls is small and we come from 11, most of us have been playing together since. Even though we are small, we find it irritating that all things are 8 man. This causing to make "raid rotations on members" etc.

Are there any plans to make content for LS's that require more than eight players? An alliance system ala 11?

[Jinko]

Nothing official has been said, personally I'm not a fan of large groups as it just becomes a cluster-****.

Getting 25 people together for WoW raids used to be a nightmare I wouldn't want to go through that on a game with less players.

Dyanmis used to be fun but given the option I would prefer tighter balanced content for smaller groups.

[ArnoMorley]

I hope so Darkhaund, based on the current content I would imagine they'd just do an instanced raid that let in 16-24 people.

Sadly any 8 man+ nms in the open world would be pointless since you can fight mobs other people have claimed. Even if it's designed to take 20 to kill it some ls somewhere will roll in with 50 people and suck the fun out of it.

[Murugan]

My ls is small and we come from 11, most of us have been playing together since. Even though we are small, we find it irritating that all things are 8 man. This causing to make "raid rotations on members" etc.

Are there any plans to make content for LS's that require more than eight players? An alliance system ala 11?

Yes there are interviews with Yoshida (stickied on this forum) which mention alliance content. They say their reason for not allowing Alliance content at the moment is that they want to develop content for it that is worthy of such numbers and not just inflate current stats for the mob, and I think also it has something to do with the number of characters the current engine can show on screen.

I completely agree with you though, this 8 person limit on content is terrible. Especially for close-knit linkshells like ours.

[Picoman]

Remember 15 man Eft parties?

[Athaya]

Nothing official has been said, personally I'm not a fan of large groups as it just becomes a cluster-****.

Getting 25 people together for WoW raids used to be a nightmare I wouldn't want to go through that on a game with less players.

Dyanmis used to be fun but given the option I would prefer tighter balanced content for smaller groups.

I so disagree. In my opinion the stronghold content should have been balanced for 8man+. I really hope we get something akin to Dynamis/Limbus/Einherjar etc.. Linkshells are big enough to support these types of events. I have hopes that future end-game content will be centered around the larger scale battles.

[Darkhaund]

Not 25man or enn so make all content require lots of ppl, just add SOME content where we can include more ppl

[Jinko]

Remember 15 man Eft parties?

Yea they were awful, as were 15 man leves.

Now if they did open world events like Rift where anyone can just turn up that would be pretty fun.

[Murugan]

Yea they were awful, as were 15 man leves.

Now if they did open world events like Rift where anyone can just turn up that would be pretty fun.

I disagree with that, those are at the bottom of my list of MMO content I like to play. They are just spam fests, and you are lucky if anyone even says a word to anyone else.

We already have this type of content in behests and it suffers from this exact same problems. The game needs content for all types of people, and right now it is seriously lacking for the many linkshells built for alliance type content. My favorite memories from any MMO was where we could get all or the bulk of our membership involved at once to work on something together as a team. Breaking up into smaller parties I can stomach for now, but it just isn't the same type of bonding experience or as fulfilling as everyone coming together to take down a big dragon etc..

[Darkhaund]

Nooooooo...... No wow clonessss. I like that FF14 is not trying to be yet another wow clone