Quote Originally Posted by Kazimir View Post
I like the idea of making normal groups smaller and having things for 4 and 8 person groups but I am completely against getting rid of 15 person battles entirely. It sounds to me like they want to make endgame content for a max of 8 people parties as well. This may improve ranking up and grouping for SP, but it would seriously ruin endgame.

The reason why I play XIV is because I thought it would have a similar endgame to XI in that the fights would be difficult, and would be large battles against strong foes. Reducing the party size to an 8 player max would make doing the endgame content boring, and would pretty much ruin the endgame LS community. With an 8 player max there will be a lot of people left out of the fights. I loved the fact that in XI we could take 12-18 people and go kill Tiamat or do Einherjar, Or get 2 groups of 30 members in sky or sea. Do you see any other MMO's with a max party size so low? I haven't played one, probably because those that play an MMO for years and actually do endgame prefer doing things in larger groups.

I have absolutely no issue with reducing party size to 8 people for leveling/questing reasons, or even smaller endgame content. But please for the love of all that is FF do not get rid of 15 man endgame content. A huge portion of your player base prefers to have large-man battles like we had in XI, WoW, Aion, or any other number of MMO's out there. I understand the population is low, but a good endgame LS has no issue getting 15 people together for NM's. My LS does it all the time and so do the other endgame LS's on my server. The one's that can't are just bad at recruiting players.
I hope Square reconsiders because of this. I have a good friend who I played FFXI with, she didn't buy FFXIV because of how bare the beta was. I've been talking to her about the future of the game and after linking her the interview about reduced party size she pretty much said she won't play at all anymore. It made me kind of sad.

A lot of people that play the game, and people that don't do enjoy large scale content. You don't see game developers closing their games off to just one audience because both groups make up a large portion of subscriptions. I hope Square and Yoshi-P realize this and decide on some sort of middle ground.