Make toptier end game based around 24-man content soon.

[Dhex]

More like, we're playing FFXIV, where luckly the developers agree that 24-man content is a bit too tedious to make the endgame staple. So i think that means your idea is the one that's conflicting here.

This has nothing to do with E-peen, and everything to do with me UNFORTUNATELY not having hours and hours to waste on queue times. It's bad enough finding parties to do the content balanced for 8 players.


if it didn't take an average of 30 minutes to get into a typical 8-man party alone as a DPS, then maybe i'd agree with you. But that's cool, because the 8-man duties are quite sufficiently difficult for me to enjoy a challenge.

That's a player mindset bred from poor content implementation; you should've been able to gather a full Alliance before entering the duty. That's on Square Enix - and now it's community is paranoid about large group content.


I say "Why not just go buy a co-op RPG and give up playing MMOs?" because 4-man dungeon runs, and 8-man "raids" a MMO does not make.

If FFXIV sticks to 4/8-man content you'll continue to have very small cliquey groups that enjoy playing "co-op" with each other exclusively with extremely negative and irrepressibly rude individuals flooding the Duty/Party Finder as we do right now. You'll continue to have large groups that are essentially fractured and unable to play together.

Why even bother calling this an MMO?

You have diametrically opposed communities in the game right now; extremely helpful nice players in Free Companies and Linkshell social networks groupings - and yet at the same time horribly angry and negative players in the public groupings.

Party Finder requirements are a great example; "EXP Only. You die = Kick. Know your role or uninstall!" etc. etc. You know where all this is bred? In the content. Lack of cohesive large social groups and content that encourages it. High requirements on gear and skill and no social responsibility is just bad news.

Big group content and larger communities tend to disabuse people of the notion that they can treat others like crap and continue to progress. Call it "forced friendship" but that kind of behavior and attitudes coming from anything but teenagers is downright embarrassing.