Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

[Zfz]

I mean seriously, I laugh about all people who talk about FCoB but didn't do a step yet in FCoB and take their opinions as utter trash, which it is.

Not really so.

Remember the game has a very strong emphasis on access. It tries to get more and more of the player population to experience everything, and that includes FCoB. So it actually does matter what people who haven't set foot in FCoB think of the fights in FCoB.

Why haven't people set foot in it? What can we do to get them to come? In the 2.x series the answers from the devs are Echo and gradually releasing Coils into the DF. In 3.0, they are releasing easy-mode of the end-game raid content in parallel. All this is done because it matters.

You don't have to care shit about non-cyclists opinion when you're organizing Tour de France, because you are organizing it for cyclists. But if you're the government trying to promote cycling among your population, you better as hell listen intently to people who don't cycle.

[KarstenS]

Not really so.

Remember the game has a very strong emphasis on access. It tries to get more and more of the player population to experience everything, and that includes FCoB. So it actually does matter what people who haven't set foot in FCoB think of the fights in FCoB.

And the producer itself already stated it a long time ago as he described, how they set up and balance the difficulty of the game content. When they balance the difficulty of content, they have a timeline how many players shall be able to finish that content within a specified period of time. He also told, that they modify the content when the numbers don't are like THEY expect.

That alone make it very clear: Not all content is made for everyone, because they design it with the focus on "shall only get beaten by x % of players till day y".

As long they do not change it anymore (BCoB, SCoB), the numbers are like the Devs want it to be.

[Zfz]

That alone make it very clear: Not all content is made for everyone, because they design it with the focus on "shall only get beaten by x % of players till day y".

They adjust it to get people who are not or can't do the content to finish it, i.e. they try to bring in more and more people into the content, which is exactly what I said. Two sides of the same coin.

[KarstenS]

They adjust it to get people who are not or can't do the content to finish it, i.e. they try to bring in more and more people into the content, which is exactly what I said.

But a little bit different, than some think or want it to get.

They have their timeline with an amount of players that should have done it after the amount of time they definied. When they see, it doesn't match, then they plan to audjust. Back in earlier days, after patch 2.2, the raisng of echo in BCoB got a break. The reason was simple. The number of players that finished grew faster than intended. So it got a break over serval weeks.

The point of what I'm writing is: the audjustments are already planned before the content get released. Its all about matching their intended numbers when and how they come.