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[jameseoakes]

This is just SE caving in to the casuals that complain about Ultimate being a waste of ressources while not even denting current EX/Savage fights. A shame really.

Also makes up most of the player base. I don't think people wanting content like Ultimate do themselves any favours hating on the bulk of the player base

[Zojha]

Cynic guess:
They realized the viewership was much less than for the first Ultimate and decided they need bigger gaps between the fights to make it more of a special spectacle, because the fights are otherwise largely worthless in terms of engagement value due to their small participation niché.

[Remedi]

@Zojha Then they haven't realized to who they were designing the fight for and I honestly don't believe it was the case unless you know SOMEHOW expected something different from the partecipation pool of gordias/midas and second coil savage (because that group we are talking about).
Frankly I don't agree with the worthless content agrument because that implies that personal choices dictates how content is valuable to the game globally, which is wrong imho, but if we really have to, well I guess I could say the same for anything PvP related, ehi those mounts and titles won't be coming back eh!

[NoctusT]

Does anyone know if they're even going to raise the difficulty of current savage? Or just keep it the same?

[KageTokage]

It's kind of sad that it took people cheating at Ultimate by datamining the gaol targets well before the markers even went out to make them consider stepping up the security measures to prevent people from doing that.

All of XIV's issues with third party programs can be linked to the fact that the data being sent to and from the servers is basically a open book for anyone who knows how to access it.

[kuma_aus]

2 Ultimate fights per expansion is perfect if we're going to patch 3.5 like previous expansions.

If we have 1 fight every odd patch, the last one would be in 3.5 which would be just before an expansion.

I would rather have the devs who work on Ultimate fights work on creating content for the expansion when it's getting close to launch.

[Nestama]

There's multiple battle design teams in FFXIV. For example, the team who made Ultimate Coils of Bahamut did not work on Ultima Weapon Ultimate (at least, I'm pretty sure this was confirmed).

[Remedi]

Yes they had 2 different guys at the helm, also patch teams is not expansion team. Usually MMOs have an expansion in development the moment the last one hit release

[Rockette]

Hey OP. I take it you've come from the Reddit discussion where raiders are disappointed with this announcement.

Despite the calls of "we need to take it to the official forums so we are heard", I knew exactly what would happen if the same discussion was attempted here.

The community here aren't raiders. It's pretty much as simple as that. No one who frequents these forums are going to back us up on this because no on here does Ultimate. Everyone who is a raider and has been for some time are either a) all banned from the forums or b) they don't visit here. And why would they? You can't ask for help on rotations or dps discussions because people here are anti parser as well.

I support you and I wish this thread had gone better like the discussions do on Reddit but it won't.

Sad days for the raid/twitch community who really put their all into Ultimate.

[Dualgunner]

Hey I take offense to that Rockette. I have a lot of fun from forum salt is why I hang around here. :P