Alliance Raid Now iLvl Locked, Why??

[Erzaa]

As for your point about “many people speedrun the MSQ that’s a small proportion; lucky brancho surveys show that over 80% of level 80% players have access to Bozja, that requires ivalice, lalaachievments only checks achievements so you can hide it but on there over 95% of players have the void ark achievement, the overwhelming majority of the playerbase has the alliance raids unlocked

Care to link this statistic? Because, I looked up this Lucky Bancho you just mentioned and what I see doesn't support that. It seems to be more around 50/50 of active players. Slightly higher for those who did unlock Bozja and Eureka.

https://luckybancho.ldblog.jp/wsurve...m?world=Global
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ja_vs_abyssos/

Then again, I'm not the smartest cookie when it comes to statistics, so what am I reading wrong here? Eureka Unopened 48.8% Save the Queen Unopened 47.6%

And you aren’t blocked from doing the alliance roulette; you just need to go out and buy gear or run it on a different job this also applies for things like the tomestone events,...

I said this before already, but having a workaround to a problem, doesn't make it a solution. Also, I'm confused... Isn't a point of contention on the forums, I've seen in the past, that there's no active gil sync in the game? Rich players with too much gil and nothing to do with it? Why are we actively supporting adding more gil then?

...the roulettes are there to fill queues for people who are queuing directly and this update has changed that, now it’s much easier to get nier and ivalice raids because people can’t cheese anymore

And how does locking out players who may have those raids unlocked and actively discouraging them from queueing help here? If they queued, you'd have an even higher chance of getting those raids, slight increase as it might be.

Call it callous but like I said if you are level 84 on your main while during ARR you don’t need to do the alliance roulette

Callous is a good word for it, yes.

Point is simple, something that worked in the past for overleveled players was taken away from them, due to an implementation of a suggested fix by the playerbase. Said playerbase suggested a fix that was lacking, without putting any forethought into the consequences, and are now fervently arguing against an improvement to said fix. I don't think anyone who suggested this was acting in bad faith, but maybe egos are getting in the way of realising their idea was flawed.