8 man "raids" = final content?

[Wintersandman]

Not sure what is relevant about that to the discussion? Can you explain?
I'm not playing that game any more, but to my knowledge they brought it back as a temporary event for a while but it wasn't raid content. Just like those holiday events.

It was sarcasm. Stating that your friends abandoned FFXIV to go back to a game that is recycling content.

But even to your suggestion of 10 man raids it would break the current party structure. Since parties are increments of 4. I know what you're gonna say is parties are full at 8 but that is a full party and you don't gain any benefits of having a 7th member over a 4th when it comes to Limit Breaks, etc. You can also form alliances for open world content but no one has bothered. As I stated earlier the overall MMO community is moving away from large raid content. Blizzard is even doing it in WoW. They made all of the raid content equal for people in any size raid. Because like you some people want 24 while a majority of the player base wants to be able to do 10 man and it is the primary reason they abolished the 40 man content when Burning Crusade came out.

I am talking of numbers, not content. You CANNOT call your game an MMO when the first M stands for massive and your endgame consists of 8 people. Really just an embarrassment to the MMO genre at that point.

And you sir. We all know the real end game for FF games is crafting.

That would be on the guild leader. Extras are ALWAYS needed.

Being an extra is never fun. They will find something else to do or go to a group that needs them. People don't want to wait to raid and they will do it outside the core.