The Atma Stigma

[Krr]

You're missing the point I was originally intending to give. It's not an argument about whether the system is good or bad, my advocacy was leaning toward giving inspiration to those who were feeling frustrated.

You should realize when you're being inspiring and when you're being insipid and insulting to those of us still doing the quest and seeing no progress after over 60 hours in one zone. Especially those of us with limited time to play the game who can't afford to farm digital bees in a digital forest for eight hours a day to get digital weapons by pressing the same two buttons over and over and over again like it's a damn slot machine. It's completely at ends with the idea of short-burst raid encounters and daily content that I can pop an hour or two into and feel done with. It reeks of something designed for bored executives and high-tier office monkeys who spend eight of their ten "working hours" doing nothing at a desk rather than an actual game for human beings. And when reforging lets us optimize our secondary stats, those are the only people who'll get to access serious raid content come 2.4 and 2.5.

[Lunasumerin]

At least with bosses/dungeons you can at least feel good that you beat something hard and SOMEONE in your party got SOMETHING at the end even if it wasn't you, plus the drop rates for the thing you want are better in dungeons. With Atma no one could get anything for MONTHS.
Saying your progress is tracked when you get an atma is missing the point because its not what we're talking about. Its the PROGRESS TO EACH ATMA. Let me know if I have to do 10 or 300 more fates until I get one. Then at least I'll feel like I'll eventually get there. Why put time into something with no guarantee, when I could instead work towards getting a weathered weapon? I know for a fact that I can get one and know how close I am to getting it. It bothers me that I will miss out on story if I can't get my atma.
The other problem with atma is that atma farmers make it impossible for lower level people to do fates and get exp or seals. You can't get to them without a chocobo and need them to get a chocobo.