My heart just fell totally...

[Nosiahk]

...seems the horrible systems Blizzard call Cross Realm Dungeons and Cross Realm Zones, which a large number of people playing WOW detest with a passion, is coming to FFXIV:



This is a recipe for disaster, the long experience of the cross-realm Looking For Dungeon has amply shown it breeds excessive greed and ass-hattery, because players can be jerks and then return to their own realm with no repercussions with regard to their community reputations.

Cross Realm Zones has destroyed large parts of the gathering game, now the over-competition for resource nodes makes leveling gathering a nightmare.

Please Yoshi, I beg of you, DON'T inflict this community-killer on us.

I disagree. Yoshi I'm not in this, don't punish me.

[Alerith]

Content Finder won't hurt linkshells or static parties.

It will help all the moms, dads, full-time students, and XI Dragoons/Beastmasters.

CAN YOU DIG IT!?

This here. Community groups will be largely unaffected and may even be better off since their members can do PUG raids in between official runs to get ahead.

[Montijin]

Content finder is probably going to be for the very basic instances.

Content finder Garuda groups would have been hilarious to watch. 3% group win rate anyone?

[Gokulo]

Content finder Garuda groups would have been hilarious to watch. 3% group win rate anyone?

Except you don't know how 1.0 experience and difficulty will translate into ARR.

[Wolfie]

Hurray for playing with random people, screw the bonds you make in parties you form yourself \o/

Aren't the people you add to your party via shouting just as random?

What's stopping you from friending and talking to people on another server? And, if added in the future, playing with them cross realm?

Why is making friends across realms bad and impossible, but making friends on the same realm not?

[Ruisu]

Except you don't know how 1.0 experience and difficulty will translate into ARR.

I certainly hope they won't be casualizing the game, especially with all of the revamps to combat and the latency and whatnot.

[Siegtaru]

I certainly hope they won't be casualizing the game, especially with all of the revamps to combat and the latency and whatnot.

If anything, they'll be scaling the difficult of pre-existing content up, considering people with extreme lag over in EU countries were able to clear things such as Ifrit Extreme (as stupidly annoying as it may have been) using reworked strategies that worked better for them purely because of the whole Lag issue. So if they claim the horrendous lag experienced while playing 1.x won't exist in ARR, then all of the 1.x content like Primals will be seemingly easier, if the encounters aren't scaled up. I can only imagine how easy Ifrit Extreme in 1.x would have been with 100ms less lag even. D:

[Gokulo]

True, but that's simply assuming they're just scaling difficulty up or down. Who says they won't completely change the whole encounters.

[Felis]

Content finder is probably going to be for the very basic instances.

Content finder Garuda groups would have been hilarious to watch. 3% group win rate anyone?

This ^^
Yoshi-P said the same

Yes, even if you need technique/skills it will change depending on the parties situation. If you want to take down dungeon efficiently or requires high level of teamwork it’s better to be with community you’re used to. Therefore for content finder would be happy if you can use it casually. Also the finder can be registered while already in a party so for example when you have 7 people already and short on 1, you can use the finder to look for that one last person.

Content finder = casual/PUG content
static party = the hard contents

[Junpei]

I can only imagine how easy Ifrit Extreme in 1.x would have been with 100ms less lag even. D:

QFT. Our group had 3 players from Belgium, 3 players from the UK, and the other 2 slots were Canada and East Cost USA.
It was night and day with the latency between the continents!

PS: I miss you sieg, why dont we hang any more brah.