Quote Originally Posted by PyurBlue View Post
This isn't goading anyone.
It is

Goading would be trying to force the CT at all cost players into other raids.
No, that would just called forcing directly.

Right now at this very moment I ignore Alliance Roulette altogether, and will forever do so until CT is removed, because the existence of CT ruins the entire thing.
Yes I know, you had said so before. Here is the quesiton: between the people who don't run AR because of CT, and the because who run AR everyday because of CT, which number you think is bigger.

Every player doesn't have to like every single piece of content, that's totally fine.
That also applies to you though ...


With the roulettes split, everyone who tries to force CT will go for the CT roulette. If they don't queue for the new Alliance Roulette, that's not a problem. The people that like Alliance Raids will. If they do queue for the Alliance Raids because now there is more reward for participating, then great more people for the roulette. Whatever they choose to do, at least they won't be dragging unwilling players into dull content.
And I already state what will be the potential problems for this. Additional, how would you balance the reward between a CT roulette and an Alliance Roulette?

- If the roulette offer the same reward as it is now, people will still flock to the CT one and ignore the AR. Nothing will change except now people don't even to ilvl cheese to get into it. If people willing to queue in to an actual AR for the same reward, you wouldn't have the current issue to begin with.

- Buff the reward on the AR to make it worthwhile for people to choose it over CT? The issue is Ivalice/Nier are just outlier that you will have to skew the reward greatly to incentize people into running it. And it happens and majority decide to abandon CT roulette in favor of AR ... SE will NOT allow that to happen.

I think there are 2 things people tend to overlook here:

- Roulette - as a system - heavily bias toward the lower level. That's not player driven, it's by designed. And CT raid is more or less the holy grail for two reason: it's mandatory to the story + it's a gateway for prospective new players. New players receiving fast queue on all the roulette relevance to them (lvling, trial, alliance) is a great advertisement for the game's health and SE will not risk that perception.

- Another element is a problem with the Ivalice and Nier raid itself. Most actually won't mind getting into the Void Ark raid. And tell you what, once this expansion is done I wouldn't mind getting the current 24 tier in my AR either. Ivalice had a brutal difficulty spike that's well beyond what's reasonable for a 24 raid, while Nier is just a ridiculous HP sponge. YOu said you don't want CT 'cause it bore you out of your mind? Guess what, that's exactly why many of us don't want to step back into Nier. Until SE go back and do something to these two raid, they will continue to poison whatever pool they are a part of.