Rename the game to the Crystal Tower?

[Ath192]

How can this be, it was explained to me multiple times that the gear req for the roulette will definitely fix this.

It helped. Let’s be honest.

We no longer have the crowds of naked people putting clothes on if you load in fast enough.

[Ankhira]

People shouldn't be "forced" to engage in content they don't want to though. I don't even do alliance raid roulettes anymore since it became "contaminated" with raids I can't do synced like Mhach/Ivalice/Nier, and no amount of additional rewards will make me risk getting stuck with a 30 minute penalty because Puppet's Bunker popped again.

It's not forcing, it's giving incentive to do them, if you don't want to engage with it, that's fine and valid, but there's plenty of people who haven't unlocked them just because they don't know they exist or see no reason to. They just take a while, idk I like all the alliance raids, except Puppets Bunker which is just boring to me.

[Supersnow845]

People shouldn't be "forced" to engage in content they don't want to though. I don't even do alliance raid roulettes anymore since it became "contaminated" with raids I can't do synced like Mhach/Ivalice/Nier, and no amount of additional rewards will make me risk getting stuck with a 30 minute penalty because Puppet's Bunker popped again.

It makes me curious though if the rest of the alliance still gets the "first-time" bonus after I leave or if its voided because I bailed the moment I load in.

Yes people should be “forced” to do or take a penalty for what they don’t want to do in a roulette because you are doing a roulette, getting benefits from filling others queues.

It’s why even though I leave every CT raid I ever get I will never advocate for removing the penalty for leaving it, because I know I’m there to help someone else and I’m choosing to not be helpful because I don’t want to do that particular duty

You 100% should be forced to have every duty on a roulette unlocked or you are actively hindering the intent of the roulette to your own benefit

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

How can this be, it was explained to me multiple times that the gear req for the roulette will definitely fix this.

I think it's more like: "Here's a handful of reasons why CT raid keep popping, but hey look at this 1 from 6969 reasons that people kept bringing up. That'll be our scapegoat while we leave the rest untouched, because why should we?"

Also I think I died a little noticing your signature update xD

[Saraide]

I think it's more like: "Here's a handful of reasons why CT raid keep popping, but hey look at this 1 from 6969 reasons that people kept bringing up. That'll be our scapegoat while we leave the rest untouched, because why should we?"

Also I think I died a little noticing your signature update xD

What can I say but

[Kohashi]

Easy fix. Make alliance raids at the respective level mandatory.

You want to que alliance raids, but you are lvl 70? Nice! You have to do Void arc and Ivalice as well.

Nothing will change in the long run because only Crystal Tower is Mandatory.

[Shyxx]

The main reason for CT isnt that its the only mandatory raid series or that players havent unlocked others. When you load into CT if you check your party more often than not there is at least one player who is between lvl 50-60 which means you were never going to get anything but CT. It's the same reason why normal raids is almost always Alexander.

[FasaiLeFaye]

Given all the discussion about making things mandatory or whatnot, the solution that I will always advocate for: give an option to allow us to do max level rotations.

Honestly, that's my entire problem with Alliance raids. The one and only reason why I hate CT (and really, any pre-Nier raids) is that we have a gimped rotation. It's not like Alliance raids are serious content anyway so there's nothing lost in letting us do max level rotations.

[Aidorouge]

It's not forcing, it's giving incentive to do them, if you don't want to engage with it, that's fine and valid, but there's plenty of people who haven't unlocked them just because they don't know they exist or see no reason to. They just take a while, idk I like all the alliance raids, except Puppets Bunker which is just boring to me.

Yes people should be “forced” to do or take a penalty for what they don’t want to do in a roulette because you are doing a roulette, getting benefits from filling others queues.

It’s why even though I leave every CT raid I ever get I will never advocate for removing the penalty for leaving it, because I know I’m there to help someone else and I’m choosing to not be helpful because I don’t want to do that particular duty

You 100% should be forced to have every duty on a roulette unlocked or you are actively hindering the intent of the roulette to your own benefit

By "forcing" I mean not making ANY alliance raid mandatory for MSQ progress because Crystal Tower is troublesome enough without gating people behind even more raids, as that's a terrible way to keep and retain new players.

I don't blame other people for deliberately skipping everything but the bare minimum to access the roulettes right now because frankly a lot of the content isn't terribly fun to do, and most people are better off doing them unsync for the story/loot farm if they care that much. I already said I don't have a problem with making a roulette requiring all content unlocked to make it accessible and earn the roulette rewards though (with even higher/better rewards too), but I also say that knowing that it's likely to make roulettes noticeably slow down when some people decide they would rather skip the roulette rewards than unlock/complete content they don't want to do, much akin to how a lot of other content lacks for warm bodies because the effort isn't worth it to a lot of people.

I don't even use any roulettes myself aside from Frontlines and gulidhests (and I stopped doing Frontlines once I maxed my Series XP last week), because Stormblood and Shadowbringers content pretty much "ruined" the dungeon/trial/raid roulettes. I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything useful and I'm not obligated to make other people's wait times better, so I'm fine just not queuing anymore, especially as a DPS main that's never-in-need anyway, so I was already getting a pittance for showing up.

[Thurmnmurmn]

I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything useful and I'm not obligated to make other people's wait times better, so I'm fine just not queuing anymore, especially as a DPS main that's never-in-need anyway, so I was already getting a pittance for showing up.

I'm back with more pointless info from my anectodal data. In the 2 weeks I ran alliance roulette, I got the in need bonus almost every day. I think it was only like twice that I didn't have it.
All as DPS.