Quote Originally Posted by Mawlzy View Post
What a fascinating reading of the situation.

Surely the system was changed because JP boycotted the content, while NA/EU caught fire?

Pretty sure it would never occur to the devs to make a change to prevent people from (allegedly) "behaving poorly." Certainly not an off-patch warmfix.
The ability to make a pf and queue in to FC is the change that makes the content doable.

The instance locking is a change that prevents sniping/griefing.

The first is a solution to the dev failure to make the content playable by any reasonable metric.

The second is a solution to community behavioral issues. Especially because this also ships with the ability to see how many ciphers people have put in. It's a pre-emptive measure to prevent some bad actor from hoarding up on ciphers to force their way into a premade run.

I cannot stress enough that this change only does one single thing, and that is prevent snipers/griefers from trying to throw a wrench into 48 other players organizational efforts.