Quote Originally Posted by Voidmage View Post
The reason for that is simply because FF14 fights are so scripted that there mostly is only one way to do them.
Of course there are fewer bugs there but other than that the FF14 raids aren’t really raids but just scripted boss fights.
The last real raid was Dalriada.

If the devs tested each fight without dev tools to skip early mechanics we wouldn’t have gotten P8S…
They probably don’t even have the time to do the raids like normal players.

At topic:
The reason people don’t raid is probably like others have said already, they have no interest.
Raids have the stigma of having to watch a guide and to know exactly where to stand when and many people just don’t like that.
They want fights that allow to jump in, maybe fail a few times but in the end get a clear and I can understand them.

I stopped raiding because it is honestly just boring.
You learn a guide to the T, look for a party that has your position open (annd has your guide in this useless guidewar) and then do the dance for hours, often without success.
Someone dies and body checks will wipe the group.
Add to that mechanics that are so obscure in part that you often need a static if your truly want to do them blind and even less people and to do it.

The FF14 raids are personally some of the worst in video game history for me.
They are so build around statics and guides nowadays that they give the feeling of only existing for content creators to have something to stream because the normal PF experience in that design is painful.

CLL, Dalriada or even some of the coils raids were real raids that deserved that name.
The devs have a "raid team" that goes into the raid like any normal group and try to pass it while looking for bugs and issues. So I'm not sure where your coming from with this comment.

As for them being "the worst in video game history", that's just laughable and means you don't have a lot of experience to call on to make that claim.

But again, if you don't like them, here's the good news, you don't have to do them. I don't ever want to play an Ultimate, so you know what I do? I don't play them. I don't need or want that level of stress in my life. I find the content I like, like normal raids, and I play those.