Hildibrand for relic? Really?

[Dawn465]

Why is it tied to the Gold Saucer? Just because Godbert will probably be in it? They could make joke weapons but they could also simply make another set of normal weapons too. Lets just wait until we see them and if they are then joke weapons one can still complain.

Maybe the story will be mostly serious with a bit of humor sprinkled in. We have no idea in this case and honestly should wait until we have done it. Then jugde it.

For Bozja you too were forced to do Ivalice. Group content with many cutscenes that some might not have wanted to do. At least with Hildebrand you can do it mostly alone (most of the trials there can be soloed) and can skip a huge amount of it. You cant skip the Ivalice raids if you want to do Bozja. You have to run the raids. Yet now its suddenly so bad?

Not only that but if you simply dislike Eureka (and Eureka was hated a lot on the forums in the past. It exploded when that content came out) then you are bascially out of luck with the whole relic questline. And with Bozja there seems to be a problem with people doing it later because certain instances are not done much often.

Maybe we finally get another relic quest that we can do with a whole variety of content and that might still be doable expansions down the line.

And about your point about liking the content: Sorry I have tried Eureka and hated it. Its an absolute boring grind which I never finished. Bozja was a bit better and I did finish one relic but I was quite happy to be done with it. (It also helped that you could get a lot of stuff outside of Bozja). People who like it have a huge amount of zones and grind to do it. Now it might be time for others to get their way of grinding. Not every expansion relic have to be Eureka or Bozja-like.

The difference between Ivalice and Hildebrand is that those things actually matter to the MSQ as where Hildebrand doesn't. Its always been miscellaneous side content that doesn't have any bearing on the story, Ivalice and the raids could be looked at in the same function but at the very least they provide actual world building for the game that we're playing.

As to the Eureka/Bozja stuff, the old form of relic grind was no better. Being forced to go back and run old content over and over again was something many people complained about hence why they shifted it to the expedition content. At the very least that form of relic grind provided new content and new things to do, it wasn't even about the relic as there were several other things you could be doing between Eureka and Bozja. Now without that people are missing out on a huge chunk of content that we were all looking forward to.

Hell, they could have provided us with new expedition zones and tie the relic into that while still tying Hildebrand stuff into Gold Saucer content and no one would be upset. It's the fact that they're removing something serious and fun and placing priority on a joke.