Its just stupid. So much waste of resources for a Instanced Striking dummy, that most people will dont even know that it excists, where you have to travel to a NPC and talk to it to acces it. I get the crycry i get bullied when people see my dps argument but you could just add a personal parser if thats the concern. There are so many ways to implement it.
I dont understand the decisiions they do any more. It feels The devs have drifted away form the playerbase and dont know what people demand.
A other example is the Gold saucer , its good and fine but why arent Trple triad, chocobo racing and Lords not in Duty finder, why do we have to stay in that goldsaucer and are only abel to play people on our server and not datacenter wide, thats what basicly kills these games and its tournements.
Next example Grand company restrictions for frontlines people shouting at yoshi from begining that its bad, and it didnt got removed till now, they rather have the lore intact instead of fixing the way to long qeue times for frontlines.
Also PVP, the new Feast mode will have AGAIN 5 different Queues, didnt they learn from Wolvs denn 5 Queues is to much, it will take forever to find a mach. ALso you only can queue solo OR in a full team, we cant even queue as duo if we whant to.
Then there is Diadem that couldve been total awesome exploration contend but it became a instanced hunt that made savage alex totally worthless to do, back in the day they said raid tier gear will be the strongest in a content cycle but look how it is now you get thrown at with 210 gear in diadem and get upgrade items from void ark, wich leads me to the next point, the relic. Could they really not think about anything better then the same quest steps minus the awesome Chimare and hydra battles, then Fate grinding and stone/token grinding, i mean cmon.
Well what i whant to say is i think they lost contact to the playerbase and what the real demand there is, how to implement stuff, and what fun means to the players.