Can't make a full premade for Crystal Tower...

[NotoriousZow]

HORRIBLE HORRIBLE idea! All this time I have been waiting for something that can involve more people from my FC, seeing as how the Coil LOCKOUT restriction always has a few people being left out (seeing as how we cannot go back and repeat to help others). So I was excited and looking forward to a 24 man event that could get everyone online involved. But no. I'm starting to like this game less and less with these 1 week lockouts and 8-man only parties. It really wrecks the entire concept of a free company. Terrible idea there.

[AjoraOak]

lol, I know making a game isn't easy.... but common sense dictates people would wanna run CT in their own fc if they have the numbers. I'm going to guess it was just too much work for them and they figured people would deal with it anyways. Story of this game, bad decisions and people just have to deal with it or argue with fanboys in denial.

[Meef_Hagena]

Unfortunately it's quite clear that this ridiculous servers we have can't handle large-scale raiding. Instead we get an illusion of 24-man content with Crystal Tower and in reality it will be no different to 8-man content. I remember Yoshi slipping up about this in the last live letter... he said something along the lines of, "in Crystal Tower you will only have to worry about your own party of 8".

Remember though, when you are also catering to PS3 users, things will be limited. I highly doubt that the PS3 would be able to handle a real 24-man raid with it's hardware. It's unfortunate but between the terrible servers and PS3 limitations, real large scale raids are most likely not gonna happen.

I am more than disappointed with this game recently, I don't think i'll be renewing my sub until/if they get better more reliable and secure servers and better end-game content. I enjoyed it for a while but it became a chore to log in and reach that myth cap.

[Berezo]

Why does square half a$$ everything in this game? Say goodbye to 24 more people who have downed turn 5. No point in us staying if we can't play with each other. GG

[chrillix]

Horrible decision to have this fake 24 man raid junk. At least if you were able to queue with 24 members from your FC there might be a slight point to doing it, but now that we don't even have that option I'm not looking forward to CT much at all.

[Arale]

For anyone who saw Reinhearts translation the key point here is... it isn't availableYET. They are already looking into having the ability to take pre-made alliance in, it just won't be available at 2.1.

Stay Calm..... patience is a virtue.

Yes, it is, but here's my gripe with it:


SE as a developer seems to go backwards each time it makes a step content wise. I have patience, but if people need to wait 6 months after launch to play with their friends whom they've grown in game with in a raid that was supposed to be ready at launch but wasn't, people are going to be peeved. Playing with strangers, personally is ok with me. But not having a choice ready for people who are more inclined to play with their LS/FC's is denying people choices, and when players run out of choices, they get that feeling of being forced to do something or not doing it at all. This is a sub killer, plain and simple. Just like the Allagan Changes, if they are true. You cant spend the first 3 months down one path then try to back up and redo everything, or release content meant to be done by many people but not give large LS/FC's the ability without repercussions. I hope they put this in for 2.1, because honestly my patience with this company is running out. We keep being told to wait, like:

''dude just wait 2.1 is almost here, then we can do crystal tower!"

Except you can't, not in that way. You shouldn't have to circumvent the system in order to play with the people you want. Any system that encourages this kind of behavior is bad. It's going to encourage FC/LS to quit & retry until they get an optimal setup, which will alienate anyone else trying to do the same, as well as the people who are just in the middle trying it solo. The people defending this are missing that key point. You still lose if this is implemented. You'll still have to wait/be shuffled with people who are also shuffling. Wait, I can just make a group for it, that's worked in the past right? You still lose, as everyone is going to. Now if you don't do CT, that's also an option, but you shouldn't have to miss out on content because of poor implementation of ways to enjoy that content.

[ItsJanHi]

What a dumb move on their part...I was looking forward to actually doing the 24 man raids with players from my FC and the server community but I have to be forced into playing with 16 random players whom I'll never communicate with outside of the instance....

[Howdydoo]

To be honest if I can't que with a full premade for CT upon it's release, there's no point in doing CT what-so-ever...I was really looking forward to 2.1 making or breaking this game and it looks like they've done the latter...history does repeat its self! I see lots and lots of subs being cancelled today, and as I might have in the past...now I don't blame them one bit, another retard move on SE's part to push the game more and more in the FAILED direction of all of their other MMO's.

[AjoraOak]

^_^ cancelled sub party! /dance, I wonder if anyone actually thought this patch would help the game.... well yeah I know fanboys did and those clinging to hope.

[SynMaris]

Speak with your wallet brah. So much for rebuilding the game and then digging another grave for it with poor design choices again.