Occult is awful, and I enjoyed both Eureka and Bozja greatly

[Gurgeh]

I think they really tried with occult. The CEs are challenging. The FATEs try to scale. Just the scaling doesn't work at all, and people are even gaming it, and we shouldn't hope they will fix that at all because it's bad and they still haven't done an emergency change.
I think the problem is the community has changed. The sorts of people who want to hang around and help and even say hi are a rarity. They exist but they are such a minority now. (The game will never be what it was. Its tragic because WoWs special value was easy to recover. FFXIVs was far more precious and rare.)
Except for Forked tower. They didn't even try to learn any lessons from EW casual drought or Chaotic, and they completely fckd that. In fact I think the game designers have taken the feedback personally and doubled down, and Yoshi isn't in control and they just do whatever they want and just don't care anymore. Actually a few too many of the CEs are maybe pushing hard extreme - (easy savage?) as opposed to Expert > hard extreme. But I don't have the energy to fight my own battles, let alone other peoples. CE challenge works for me. I was expecting a Fup like Forked, so just not bothered. Used to it. I might fall into it if my friends do. If not I won't be alone in not being bothered about giving it a miss.
They really tried to listen to feedback with the actual field part, mistakes will happen. Another team oversaw the show piece instance, and they didn't try at all and just did what the F they wanted.
I having chill fun for now.

[MicahZerrshia]

In fact I think the game designers have taken the feedback personally and doubled down, and Yoshi isn't in control and they just do whatever they want and just don't care anymore.

lol seriously dude, you think that the dev team has staged a mutiny and poor Yoshida is just hiding in his office? I know some ppl really simp for this man, but this is either bait or just complete delusion.

[Gurgeh]

lol seriously dude, you think that the dev team has staged a mutiny and poor Yoshida is just hiding in his office? I know some ppl really simp for this man, but this is either bait or just complete delusion.

You can't get good work from people if they hate what they are doing. Especially in game dev. I think some of his team just dint have it in then to do a good job of designing fights they are not passionate about. It's just not an option.

Meanwhile, you can't just put an an advert in the paper to hire a bunch of people to design mid-difficulty XIV instances, to go 'along side' your hard induces, and integrate with the rest of the team and the game.

Having no control isn't a sign of rebellion. Having no control is accepting life. They have to be passionate about what they do. You can't force them to be passionate about something they are not. Honestly I'm getting vibes of burn out. Or recovering from it.
You accept the reality of what you've got to wait with and make the best of it. With XIV, that happens to mean mid difficulty losing out at the moment.
I rather they design a good savage difficulty a hand full of perks like than a mid difficulty everyone hates. For the Devs sake. You just can't expect to keep subs is all. We don't donate to SE outc of charity.

Delusion , blah, blah. Really I don't know why we are more interested in each other than the game. Whatever.

They've made sure as usual first and foremost that savage raiders get to have their usual challenge, rather than saying "hey go enjoy another game if you've cleared it all second pull minimum gear", and when they did that, they fckd it. Again. I find it hard to believe they would do that, again, if they had a choice. Yet it's what's happened. Ergo, they didn't actually have a choice. No control.

Yes. They don't care. They didn't try. You often can't blame someone for not caring though, especially if there is burnout.

[Gurgeh]

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Oohhh... Also... Many of the Fates do have much better mechanics to pay attention too. On the rare occasions that you not only get to them in time but they haven't also been obliterated after the first mechanic.