I expected absolutely nothing and was still disappointed with Ultima.

[DeadRiser]

SE is really starting to make me not want to return. I was getting excited for a trial that was 24 man. Not this pathetic crap.

Only reason I am still playing is my friends need a healer for their raid group. I don't enjoy staying logged in.

[Kaizencorr]

I'm glad you guys have golden runs every time you log on. My group wiped to proto Ultima.

[Vexander]

Call me crazy, but the Dun Scaith group I was in this morning was quite pleased by facing Proto Ultima. None of us expected it, and the fight was a lot more fun and engaging than the snooze fest that is the Succubus normally. The Succubus was just an HP tank with adds. You could fall asleep fighting her. Proto Ultima had far more mechanics to it making it fun.

I'm sure that'll wear off in a couple of weeks, but it was a pleasant surprise for a lot of us.

[Alistaire]

Not really. It didn't break the game and make me want to unsub tho. I'm more angry I didn't pick up the dumb quest before I did Dun and had to do it twice.

It's the kind of thing that makes one question whether or not the next big thing they hype up will be good...ya know, like Stormblood.

Although I think the reaction would've been completely different if SE had pitched this as "hey we decided to throw a little extra thing in to change up the monotony, we think you'll like the rewards" rather than THE FIRST 24-MAN TRIAL IS COMING PLEASE LOOK FORWARD TO IT.

[DeeColon]

Some people are trying to say others were disappointed with Ultima because we were expecting it to be hard. No one was expecting the fight to be hard, we all know SE has been trying harder and harder to cater to the lowest common denominator of player skill with every trial and raid that came after patch 3.2, we're disappointed because as others have days we expected this to be CONTENT, my entire free company logged in at 3am expecting easy NEW CONTENT but still at least something new to do blind together, instead we did our Dun Scaith weekly.

[Krokov]

But why does something have to be hard and take awhile in order for it to be fun can't you just enjoy the fight as it is even if it is completed in a relatively quick amount of time. Not all groups as someone has already mentioned will complete it quick and they might have trouble doing it, if you're over geared for it or have latest Ilevel it probably will be easy. That doesn't make it any less fun or maybe a challenge for other groups though.

[Rufalus]

I expected something different too, but people saying the whole game is trash as a result is an overreaction.

Stormblood will probably be amazing, have an amazing story with lots of epic moments and a lot more dev time spent on it than this little bonus fight we got today.

I think they just could have told us more about this instead of making it sound like a secret worth keeping. If we knew it would be something much less than a regular trial, people wouldn't have been as disappointed.

[DeeColon]

.

Read my comment above yours, there's not really a fight to enjoy, it's a trash pull between already existing fights.

[DeeColon]

I expected something different too, but people saying the whole game is trash as a result is an overreaction.

If people are calling the game trash over this patch then they thought that before this patch, and as I said the quality of content has been spiraling downward since patch 3.2 so it's not unreasonable that some people are giving up. Since 3.0 began this girl has had people complaining about not enough content or bad content, thinking Stormblood won't follow suit after the initial oohs and ahhs wear off is naive.

[Iromi]

If people are calling the game trash over this patch then they thought that before this patch, and as I said the quality of content has been spiraling downward since patch 3.2 so it's not unreasonable that some people are giving up. Since 3.0 began this girl has had people complaining about not enough content or bad content, thinking Stormblood won't follow suit after the initial oohs and ahhs wear off is naive.

This is so true.. and if this is any indication of what we can expect in Stormblood, well....rip.