Are you happy with the current raiding structure in this game?

[Ooshima]

If you read the entirety of his post though, you'll see that it's not so much just addressing the difficulty with "why can't everyone clear coil?" There are other points that the devs have remained pretty much quiet on. There simply are not enough options @ end game right now and the lock-out makes that painfully obvious.

I have covered them in entirety, actually. If you recall back all the Live Letters and interviews, you would actually find that it is just not only difficulty. All in all, the whole coil was designed with a difficulty and structure in mind that not many people will clear it, not many people will have the loots. This is why it is difficult, this is why they insist with the lock out because Yoship doesn't want everyone running with coil gears. If you see through this, you will get why they have not changed anything and tells you they could not find an alternative - simply because they wanted to make coil exclusive in some way. You can have access to the content but that doesn't mean that you can necessarily clear it and obtain the loots etc.

[Cidel]

I have covered them in entirety, actually. If you recall back all the Live Letters and interviews, you would actually find that it is just not only difficulty. All in all, the whole coil was designed with a difficulty and structure in mind that not many people will clear it, not many people will have the loots. This is why it is difficult, this is why they insist with the lock out because Yoship doesn't want everyone running with coil gears. If you see through this, you will get why they have not changed anything and tells you they could not find an alternative - simply because they wanted to make coil exclusive in some way. You can have access to the content but that doesn't mean that you can necessarily clear it and obtain the loots etc.

Okay that's nice and all, but we're not simply looking at the difficulty of coil atm. At least that's what I'm picking up from the conversation thus far.