Omega and future raid concerns

[Consurgens]

Players choosing not to do the content does not mean the content itself is not accessible. An example of something that's not accessible would be housing when all plots have been bought up.

More often than not, the only thing preventing people from entering Savage is themselves, not the game. SE themselves have progressively dumbed down the raids - and in some cases, even the Jobs - yet it means nothing if certain players are not willing to challenge themselves but would rather stick to the low effort route that XIV enables them to do.

I believe we attribute different semantic values to "accessibility". I don't mean Savage isn't accessible as in it's an abstract wall - but that there is a clear difficulty gap between it and other non-ultimate content (Alte Roite notwithstanding). Debating whether everything is accessible or not necessarily means pondering on the concept of individual skill. I know some people believe that there is no such thing as "innate skill limitation" but that's still a whole psychological debate that unfortunately I don't think will be solved in here.

But going by your meaning of accessibility, I completely agree with you.

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Please refer to my first post regarding the nostalgic value, which is something XIV invests heavily on and is the subject that I'm talking about. Brute Justice has, as far as I know, zero references outside of FFXIV. No Final Fantasy fan that never played FFXIV will say "ohhh it's Brute Justice from that other FF game" because there is no such thing. My questioning is why certain franchise throwbacks are locked behind savage while others behind less demanding content.

I merely find it counterproductive that a game that puts so much on it's nostalgic value and franchise self-plagiarism to design Neo Exdeath and God Kefka the way they did. That's simply it. I'm not asking for a normal mode God Kefka or such thing, at least not with the way the fight is mechanically designed; and I agree with most of the points made here by you and others.

I don't use these forums a lot but I haven't seen a single complaint about Tsukuyomi recently. Bear in mind forums are inherently a vocal minority and doesn't represent the entire playerbase feelings (which also applies to this thread). I wasn't around for the Steps of Faith nerf so I can't comment on what happened there though.