Excluding Players from Ultimate Savage is Not the Right Move

[Driavna]

I don't know... sounds like the real problem is that an experienced raid group can't sell clears right away if the person doesn't have Omega Savage fully cleared before. The progression follows the logic used so far by the game and is nothing new, why complain now?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

This... makes no sense. If you aren't able to clear Neo Exdeath, why would it even matter to you Ultimate mode is locked? You won't come close to scratching it as the entire purpose was to giving raiders additional content once they've finished the current tier. The reason it's gated is, quite frankly, to prevent players who have no business attempting a harder difficulty from doing so, only to get frustrated and blame the game for their impatience. I know it sounds silly, but I also many people who insist on playing games at a higher level than their skills allow and ultimately quit. The devs don't want people doing that when they can barely get through V3S.

[Couchpirate]

I dunno why Ultimate Savage being locked behind a clear requirement is an issue... I mean, if you haven't cleared O1S, you can't do O2S etc... so not being able to access Ultimate Savage if you haven't cleared O4S makes sense. And this just seems like a way of rewarding the people who devote lots of time to be able to clear their most difficult content, which seems like a nice thing for them to do. After all, I see the Ultimate Savage content as a reward, for people who dedicate enough time to be able to clear the hardest content. As someone who hasn't even cleared O2S yet, I don't feel like I should be rewarded unless I can prove that I deserve it.

[Darwen]

This is some quality bait. Unless you were serious. In which case, stay salty amigo.

[Balipu]

Yes, it totally is the right move. Since I would probably die with the boss being at 95% health I won't be experiencing the content anyway.

Ultimate mode is a special piece of content for players way better than me. As it should be. There are tonns to content to choose from. Let hardcore raiders have something for them.

[MyaValentine]

Fight drops 340 weapons that might be better and more impresive looking that V4S which you need to beat V1,2,3 in order to get it.

Fight has no weekly lookout or restriction, drops the best current weapon of your choice when clearing it and also a title.

if this fight ha sno significant gate you will see quite a hefty amount of people buying this fight left and right. there's absolutely no reason why a fight with such a reward and such a difficulty be open for everyone? If you want this fight work for it. You have as much right to do this fight as anyone who put the same effort into beating savage so stop victimizing yourself like someone had a higher blood allowing the exclusive access that you will never get a change to get. You and every new millenial complaining about exclusivity baffled me with this arguments talking as if they don't have the same rights as everyone to get anything on the game, stop kidding yourelf and work for it.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

I consider the requirement to clear O4S to be the same as meeting an ilvl requirement for certain content. Like many MMO's, FFXIV has a number of gating mechanisms such as level, item level, main story quests, etc. This is no different. I'm not certain how anyone capable of clearing O4S is being "excluded". If you're capable of clearing Ultimate Savage, you should have no trouble clearing O4S to unlock it. You aren't "excluded" from the content. You merely have to meet the prerequisite to engage in it. Its the same as having to do all those level 50 dungeons to unlock the roulette for it.

[rjspencer4]

I'm not doing regular savage and even I think ultimate should be gated.

[MorfineCeres18]

This is nothing new, you have to clear omega normal to access savage, and you have to clear each floor of savage to get the next one, and so on, and no one ever complained, what's the difference with ultimate being after you complete savage??? also, let the pro raiders have fun too, they have been boring because of us casuals, having two tiers too easy and boring for them, as you say they also pay to play, they deserve some content too. I don't see the problem.

[UnstablePersonality]

Except it's not really excluding anyone? If you wanna get into it then you'll try to. If your are like me and care that it exists because it's an amazing concept but don't care to try it then idk...just deal with it?