Quote Originally Posted by Lunaxia View Post
I really wish they would put more energy overall into encouraging players into harder content, giving them the education necessary to actually succeed there from earlier on and deconstructing the perception of Savage and the like as this impenetrable bastion of gaming skill that only the top percentage of players can try. They're shooting themselves in the foot by putting the time into developing this content without attempting to up participation, and if they insist that players bored with the game should be turning in that direction, the least they can do is bring it to the fore and make it less of a niche within the game.
Where is the game itself perpetuating that idea? That seems to come more from the community. The game puts the unlocks out there. It puts them into a separate Duty Finder for a time, yes, but there doesn't seem to be anything in the game itself that says only the top percentage of players can try it. Maybe there's something they could do with DF on JP servers but, for instance, NA uses PF for that content, so what could the devs do there? If they restrict it so it can only be done in DF then NA would most likely only run with statics and the ability to PUG Savage would either be incredibly limited or die off.

Quote Originally Posted by AwesomeJr44 View Post
There's no good narrative reason to have the story split between Labyrinthos and Thavnair at the beginning of Endwalker, it's only done because the other expansions did it. This wouldn't necessarily be a terrible thing if it wasn't so obvious when it was impacting things.
Narratively, no, but it's not just because other expansions did it. It's so we don't have a repeat of Stormblood Early Access and everyone getting stuck on the Raubahn instance because the instance servers were overwhelmed and everyone followed a single path in the story.

As to the OP, the game is very alt character and alt job unfriendly. Especially for a game that encourages you to play everything on a single character. If you need to have alts for one reason or another, they can't share in anything from the main character that would make synergy between the two characters easier.