Quote Originally Posted by Azurymber View Post
most other MMOs are raid-centric yes. And i don't really like that. But i'd rather play a raid-centric game with story-based raids that are up to par to current standards than a raid-centric game where all you do is run through a cave and kill 2 bosses. The job system won't be done for about half a year so that means they can't really create a "great" raid for at least 6 months. And from whats been released so far i don't have overly high expectations.
Again... where did you get the idea that the job system won't be done for another 6 months? From letter X it clearly says it's part of the changes that are due for the end of summer and i don't know where you live but here in Canada it's pretty much our last summer month.

Also not sure if SE calls these "RAIDS" ... i think all i've seen was the word "dungeon" being used and these are pretty much that... Dungeons. Every MMORPG needs these.. it's at the core of an RPG game. Have you ever played an RPG that had no dungeons? Cuz that's all there is and every FF game is centered around that.

Now if you wanna talk about Raids.... from my own experience Raids are very large dungeons that are way more difficult and which require multiple parties to join forces in order to complete them. We don't have any Raids in FFXIV yet and yes you are right when you say we won't have one for months and that's understandable. Raids require a lot more effort and coordination from parties then dungeons do and with the battle system being incomplete we can't have Raids.

So bottom line, FFXIV like any other MMORPG will be centered a lot around Dungeons and Raids but that doesn't stop them from giving you NM or HNM, PVP or any other option to keep you entertained and provide you with means to acquire some rare loot. WOW is so succesfull because it is very good a pleasing a lot of different type of players. PVE players got Raids and dungeons, pple that like PVP have the Arenas and Battlegrounds. Nothing is preventing SE and FFXIV from doing the same and having something for everyone.

So now stop with the treats and trying to show SE that pple will quit FFXIV if it's not FFXI-2 and sit back while the dev team does their job.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...805-20-2011%29