Ultimate hiatus feedback

[Emileigh]

I echo the sentiment of this thread and many who have posted here. I was extremely disappointed when i read that the interview that stated that Ultimate was going on hiatus. I hope that the dev team will reconsider their decision.

For me ultimate has been some of the most fun content in the game. It has rekindled the feeling that I got at the start of the game when I found out about raiding and aspired to get good enough to be able to do. The feeling of beating T9 was better than any other fight in the game until these.

Ultimate has had a lot of really positive effects on the game and the community within it. And rescinding on the promise of an ultimate fight at a time when the content is most sparse is a terrible idea. I was around for the lull in content at the end of ARR and the end of HW. The game was essentially dead for those months. Not only did I see many players quit over it, the ones who remained were terribly bored and the overall health and tone of the community was quite poor.

These fights add a reason to keep playing the game. It inspires new players to take up the game and inspires them to raid. It is a reason to improve your play to get good enough to one day challenge these. it is a reason to play through the savage content and get all of the best gear. it gives countless hours of entertainment to watch friends do the fights and playing through them yourself. They are also really fun to do even after you clear. it stimulates the game's economy as raiders will need a lot more food and pots. And it also just keeps people subbed and playing the game at a time where most people would have taken a break entirely. You would loose all of that over the year long break removing the 4.5 ultimate fight.

Emileigh Beastslayer - Excalibur

[Lilin_l]

More Ultimate! only 2 fights per expension? that's one fight per year! how can that be "rough"?! Supposedly ultimate content is made for the more hardcore players whom I am sure are capable of handling more then one fight every six monhts! Even if the more casual players can feels "overwhelmed" when a new ultimate fight comes out and they haven't cleared the previous one, you can still continue to progress the old fights! They don't become any less dificult as new ones are released. And honestly, this content wasn't designed towards casual players, and while it's fine and cool the more people we have enjoying ultimate, maybe the opinion of those who only casually tackle into this content shouldn't be taken as the major feedback from the comunity when developing a fight for the smaller hardcore player base. (Regarding Yoshi-p's comment on how the comunity felt with a new fight every odd patch.)

Hope our word can reach the dev team and that they reconsider this decision.

Lilin Lockhart - Cerberus

[Bill_Murray]

I too am disappointed with the news of no ultimate fight for patch 4.5. I throw my name in the ring with the rest of those posting here in hopes that the devs will reconsider after hearing what the raiding community really does desire. Thanks for the great ultimate fights so far and keep up the good work!

Bill Murray - Sargatanas

[Furrytractor]

I couldn't agree more. This kind of content is just VERY exciting to watch! Our group is getting into this as well for the first time and it's fun to do.

[Tsumdere]

I am not a raider by any means, nor do I have plans to step a foot inside UCoB or UWU ever, but please do not put Ultimate on a hiatus.

I personally enjoy watching the streamers and rooting for my favorite teams for world first. Its amazing to see these fights and the people who are mad enough to challenge them.

Anloix Etiegeant - Balmung

[Lambdafish]

Add my name in support too!

Khuja'to Binbotaj - Hyperion

[Dworim]

As Savage was streamlined into midcore raiding content (and alliance raids to be the entry level), the third tier of challenge would be on the Ultimate series. With missing out on a third entry per expansion it'll mean that majority of the hardcore crowd is being left out for the remainder of it. Coming from that point of view, having the Ultimate series every odd patch is a very reasonable compromise between the other content. If the reason for holding up is resource-related (even if most assets are reused), then it may be understandable, but I doubt that the community Ultimate content was designed for ever found it "too rough". On the contrary, it feels like the progression period for the Ultimate content is the major highlight of the year related to the game in many aspects, so I will also vouch for reconsidering this decision.

-Rai Geki, Phoenix

[shaddraven]

I agree. My team had a lot of fun in ucob (though we did have a lot of scheduling mishaps so we didn't see much past fellruin) and currently are having a blast in Ultima. It was quite disheartening hearing the decision to cut ultimate fights until after 5.0. The time span between 4.4 and 5.0 launch is quite daunting especially if there isn't any challenging content to do. Personally I haven't heard any downside to the ultimate fights from HC raiders to casuals, every seems to love the idea of them, and also love watching them on twitch if they aren't trying it out. It also gives the gathering of gear from the savage fights more meaning imo.

[Hina_chu]

Recommending https://www.change.org/t/gaming-9 to raise an official petition to get 'into the spotlight' of SE's attention.