Quote Originally Posted by StouterTaru View Post
So you want top tier content to be beaten within a few hours of it being released, and on farm mode week 2? Why not just ask for all lockouts removed so you can get all your gear in a few days then unsub for 6 months?
This is what would happen if it were tuned with i180 in mind, but only by the top raiders. Also the reason Mythic Archimonde was downed fairly quickly in WoW. I'm not quite sure if artificially extending the content's length is any better, though. I don't get where this unsub stigma comes from, as long as they keep giving a good amount of content every 3-4 months as I feel it was worth the money, I'll sub for that duration of time. If not, I'll unsub. You know what I don't feel is worth $15 for 4 months is though? 2 dungeons and 2 extreme primals. If it wasn't for Alexander I would have been unsubbed, not only did it give me something to do for an entire month and a week, it gave me a cool glamour set and a nice experience with the raid.

I still had fun, even though it was "easy". For those saying you lose the sense of progression through the story, it's really not fair comparing current Alexander to Final Coil. I may have only done Turn 5 after it was nerfed to hell and back through various means, but it must have been at least 2-3 months trying every now and again on DF to finally beat it (after I moved to the JP servers though...) I felt the satisfaction of beating it, and it was comparable to finally taking down Bismarck, but I disappointed with its end (cliffhanger... got stuck on T9 DF before HW launched). The only thing that was cool about it was seeing Bahamut's head, because c'mon, it's his head! That's what was Coil awesome, the awesome setting, facing off in unknown creations of the Allagan, learning more about the Allagan and Bahamut himself. Alexander pales in comparison, and I stated it's not because it was difficult, it's because Alexander's story is a joke in comparison. They could have done amazing things with Alexander, but they decided to take the silly route. Have you guys seen Alexander in FF9 and Type 0? This one is just... bleh in comparison. This one has shown no threat, just people saying that its going to drain the land of aether, but we all know that won't happen because we'll stop it in the nick of time! The least they could have done is show the areas surrounding it appear "dead".

Anyway that's my rant about its story over, a bit off topic there and I added like nothing onto the topic, but I felt like getting it out.