Quote Originally Posted by DynnDiablos View Post
You know, recently going through Binding Coils of Bahamut and Alexander, and I have to wonder...what happened to Normal raids these last few expansions?

They used to have such intricate level designs, the story interwoven within those various raids, and they just were so much more elaborate. Now it is simply loading into a square or circle zone.

Why? I get budget constraints, but if they could do something as memorable as Binding Coils, why can't we get that back?
People complained about having to fight through trash for their reclears/prog and those complaints led to the development removing trash mobs after Alexander.