Quote Originally Posted by SpookyGhost View Post
If your argument is "there shouldn't be hard content" - then I agree, personally. I don't think it's beneficial to the game to continue producing content for 1% of the community . . . Obviously as I said, you can remove raiding entirely, take those resources, and put them into different stuff that's more easily accessible - I wouldn't have a problem with that though I imagine a portion of the community would.
Precisely one of my primary points. It does not make sense for a sub-based MMO to attempt to cater to hardcore players because there's no financial upside; sub is all about quantity of people paying for the same sub. In F2P conversely you have to cater to the hardcore because that's where you're more likely to get the whales; a lot of people playing for free doesn't pay the bills. Seeing stuff like this from hardcore players asking for more gates makes no sense, i.e. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...mode-Alexander.

As I previously stated, SE should blow it up and cut their losses from Alexander. The economics don't work and it obviously caused a lot of damage to the bottom line. The thing is though Yosh-P does seem to recognize the right lane for SE to drive in to.