Thread: Difficulty format for Normal and Savage will remain in 4.0

You got to love SE. They first say that the clear rate/activity rate is low in Savage and trying to find ways to increase it, yet they say at the same time that they cannot put higher reward than they have in there right now because people will feel more compelled to do it. Or in their words, feel forced to do it. For frick sake SE, what do you want out of raiding? Will you just say you hate doing it and get rid of it already and stop beating around the bush?

Two things to increase raid activity:
1. Make a better reward scheme
2. Create more midcore content for players to work into raiding easier.
BONUS. Use Normal mode as a means to engage at a midcore level and stop using it as a means to get instant gratification story time. Earn the story.

I think the Final Fantasy brand itself is strong enough to motivate people to do more midcore content if done right. It happened with FFXI, FFXIV 1.0, and 2.0. People adapted and got better, well some anyways. Perhaps this is just a generation thing now where people feel entitled to things quickly and easily and I am just an old man who is just screaming about the good ol' days when challenge was in various forms, not just in one spot and everything else is brain dead easy.

Since this keeps being brought up by a few people here. The vast majority of groups raiding have like at best half of the people that are actually good in the group anyway. You can't really compare any top teams to them because the difference between having a full group of good players (or like 6+) and having just a few (like 1-3) is HUGE. You know that trap farm party for outdated content you left immediately? Yeah that's most raid groups.