If you continue to dumb down the game, you will lose half your player base

[Skiros]

Really? Never heard of that!

Jokes aside i never said raiders and casuals are mutually exclusive categories. And it changes absolutely nothing anyways. It is fact that far more players play the game in a casual way than in a hardcore raiding way. Speaking about Savages/Ultimates etc. here. Especially with Ultimates which get cleared by maybe idk 1% of the games population?

XIV attracts way more people who don't rush into the latest savages and ultimates but rather casual players. And there you have the reason why SE is catering to casuals more than to the hardcore raiding scene. Not to mention that casuals don't go into hibernation after every raid and actually pay also for other things while really many raiders are only into raiding which is not where the money lies for SE.

Hope now you understand it better and nice try, really.

Maybe raiders won't go into hibernation if there's actually something interesting to do beyond grinding mentor roulette 2000 times.

[RyuDragnier]

Maybe raiders won't go into hibernation if there's actually something interesting to do beyond grinding mentor roulette 2000 times.

You mean if they wanted to do something other than raiding. Often times if they're only here for raiding, then they only want to do hardcore content, and nothing more. You cannot cater to those individuals, there's absolutely nothing you can add to make them stay for more than the raids.