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    ... i really don't see how i will continue to play this game long term if 1 hour is the maximum length of a dungeon long term.
    Without a BARE MINIMUM 3 HOUR series, i will likely leave the game some months after 2.0
    I'm all for the shorter content, and perhaps even most of the time this is the best fit,
    but the epic mega dungeons are the delicious prize when one has the time for those most epic memories.
    Without that... i couldn't.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NefarioCall View Post
    ... i really don't see how i will continue to play this game long term if 1 hour is the maximum length of a dungeon long term.
    Without a BARE MINIMUM 3 HOUR series, i will likely leave the game some months after 2.0
    I'm all for the shorter content, and perhaps even most of the time this is the best fit,
    but the epic mega dungeons are the delicious prize when one has the time for those most epic memories.
    Without that... i couldn't.
    The people wanting 4+ hours of content will blame society's ever shortening attention span and instant gratification attitude for making content too short

    People in favor of the shorter content will say that people have lives and not everyone can spend all nite on a game when you work, have families, commitments, responsibilities...

    Both groups make good points
    The more I read... the more I'm starting to think SE is damned if they do... and damned if they don't
    What makes it worse... is there is hardly ever a majority.... Just 2 sides of equal opposition...
    This must be what it's like to be a congressman
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    Quote Originally Posted by NefarioCall View Post
    ... i really don't see how i will continue to play this game long term if 1 hour is the maximum length of a dungeon long term.
    Without a BARE MINIMUM 3 HOUR series, i will likely leave the game some months after 2.0
    I'm all for the shorter content, and perhaps even most of the time this is the best fit,
    but the epic mega dungeons are the delicious prize when one has the time for those most epic memories.
    Without that... i couldn't.
    This is sort of what I was trying to get at. There should be some content that caters to the people who want an event like dynamis, but dynamis worked best with a tight knit group of people who showed every run, followed instructions, and took the time to learn what they were doing. When dynamis needed 30+ people to do successfully it was very hard to find that many people willing to commit four hours to an event. The people who weren't committed or couldn't follow instructions linked east gate every run.

    Tanking for four hours was a lot of work too. At least in XIV you could rotate people's jobs around and that might make the event more bearable to people with critical roles.

    Most players are probably going to want shorter events, but that doesn't mean SE should make everything cater to the average player.
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