Can we please get rid of square and circle arenas for every trials and 8 men raids?

[Sicno]

you mean the part when you go from a big square to a small square?

A platform is a platform, dunno how shaping it like a flower or an '&' would make the fights more fulfilling.

or like diamond weapon where you stay on a spot and magically jump to another platform without doing anything?

You know there's a lot of limitations in the engine they inherited from 1.0, where there wasn't even a jump, right? While not ideal they're dealing with what they have. Passing tethers can be a nightmare already, I don't want to imagine how finnicky it would get if they threw jump detections and collisions into the mix.

[Stachiko]

OP's asking for more environment related to the raid and I agree. The shape doesn't matter.

Yeah just more immersion with the environment. The whole idea of being telepooted to some platform with no environment is jarring, especially if you come from other MMO's.

I really don't feel excited stepping onto those platforms anymore. The lack of background feeds heavily into that.

[Kolaina]

See that is the problem with this game's community. When someone presents a flaw in this game and gives feedback on how to improve it, the community's inferiority complex rises up.

Before this post I seen nothing on “how to improve it”. I think you just wanted to call people out without the actual substance

[Saimeren]

How about triangles?

[Sicno]

and no, with "changing platforms" i mean things like the elerethe fight on "that game" when you have to run against the wind jumping between poison puddles and walking on a twig to try and cross a precipice while you have adds munching your ass, i didn't mean afk into a square to get pushed to the platform in front of you

I just remembered that running over Shinryu's tail while dodging lasers to reach another platform could be along those lines (this in the EX version).

[DrFlesh]

Before this post I seen nothing on “how to improve it”. I think you just wanted to call people out without the actual substance

how about a massive raid witch checkpoints and no trash?
how about they copy the raid design they use for everything else except for savage?
how about they continue with the first coil of bahamut design and just do better fights instead of qqing because "bad players use my big platform to cheese a badly designed fight so im only doing squares from now on"

[Krotoan]

Alliance raids are challenging? Lol. News to me

Certain raids are challenging for a lot of people. If they're easy for you then *golf clap * I guess, but its' pretty obvious that the Ivalice raids and beyond are more than many can keep up with.

Considering OP's level , they can really only do world of darkness and Crystal Tower lines which are absolute faceroll right now so if they're actually being serious, it's no wonder they think those are "casual".

[LystAP]

They tried something unique with the first Steps of Faith trial. People got upset.

[KizuyaKatogami]

Certain raids are challenging for a lot of people. If they're easy for you then *golf clap * I guess, but its' pretty obvious that the Ivalice raids and beyond are more than many can keep up with.

Considering OP's level , they can really only do world of darkness and Crystal Tower lines which are absolute faceroll right now so if they're actually being serious, it's no wonder they think those are "casual".

It’s more than many can keep up with but i don’t think that instantly makes it deemed as challenging, if anything it just means that portion of the playerbase isn’t very good to put it bluntly which is fine. But when the hardest mechanic in that raid series is simply 6 people splitting into a group of two i think there’s uh….player error there.

[ijuakos_xqwzts]

That's still pretty unspecific. IIRC most wow encounters kept you in a debatably circular or square arena. If it's like.. a heart shape is that better? A donut?

Donut? Already done. First boss in the Puppet's Bunker. Oh yeah, and the second boss in Copied Factory. Almost certainly others.