Ultimate hiatus feedback

[Tekiteki]

i don't do ultimate as i play this game casually but my friends do and i LOVE watching them and cheering them on!
For the sake of the hardcore raiders, Please keep ultimate going!

Muteki Ragnarok - Ragnarok

[aesteval]

(And @ the "but you guys are just wanting to sell your clears" I'm pretty sure that stuff is aimed towards the midcore stuff like EX and savage. I'm really not sure that Ultimates can function with someone being carried.)

You should look more into it regarding how it's done as I don't want to derail the topic at hand, just comment that it's troublesome to find myself in a situation where it's possible to question motives.

On the whole I do support more ultimate though.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

As someone who remains actively progging both UcoB and UwU, I share the same sentiment many others have endorsed. Ultimate answered the gap left when Savage was made more accessible, and to see it reduced to only two encounters is more than a little disheartening. Despite having not yet cleared, it gave me something to look forward to each odd patch in the eventuality I finally am able to beat each fight. I cannot help be concerned Stormblood will conclude with a similar whimper Heavensward did due to the final Savage tier spanning an eight month cycle as the only remotely challenging content. And even that only offers arguably two fights, especially once you have BiS.

Cassandra Solidor - Cactuar

[DarthXelion]

Correct me if im wrong but, Isn't the Dengeki interview saying they are taking a hiatus from Ultimate in 4.5 a mistranslation? Cause in the Famitsu interview Yoshida says they have not even thought about what the next ultimate encounter is going to be, That they only had 3 Devs who were up to the task of making Ultimate, and the Dev incharge of the next ultimate would have to start from scratch.

If it wasn't mistranslated please please pleeeeeeease make a 4.5 ultimate.

[Katoa]

I'm not a raider, but having Ultimate content there gives us something to do during patches as most of the times it gets boring and tiring doing the same dungeons over and over while none of it being particularly challenging. It's also something nice to watch while you're gathering materials to help out those same raiders when they end up using all of their pots.

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[Kazgrel]

I’m far from involved in Ultimate. I haven’t done any savage content in SB, just a few of the EX trials. Despite that, I share a small semblance of disappointment that the people doing this content have.

As pointed out on page 1, the ultimate fights produced viewership traffic akin to that for Stormblood launch. Nothing else is really close. While twitch viewership isn’t a be all end all statistic, it does serve the purpose as a method to gauge interest.

Ultimate fight design also challenges the developers to throw everything and the kitchen sink at players. Look at how people reacted to the discovery of the awakening status/requirement for the primals in UwU. It’s not out of reason to think such things may find their way down into future Savage fights.

I fully expect there to not be an ultimate fight in 4.5, but I hope there’s enough popularity with it to have at least 3 ultimate fights per expansion.

[TogashiYuuta]

Working my way through the Ultimate fights has been by far the most fun I've had raiding in this game. Take a second look at the feedback from the raiding community please!

[Samuraijubei]

Please continue to support Ultimate fights. It's been one of the biggest draws for new blood to FFXIV in a long time. Even friends that don't have interest in raiding still watch and support because of the sheer impressiveness of the fights. .

[Melbolgia]

I know that having the Ultimate difficulty fights may not benefit the entire playerbase of the game but losing the difficulty does not benefit anyone at all. 4.5 is usually the longest patch in an expansion and it has the best chance to get more raiders into the difficulty which creates a better community. This is not the time to rethink the amount of this content we are able to have. Please finish out the expansion with another Ultimate, if something has to be given up in order to keep up with the patches for Ultimate fights maybe there is a better solution to be found next expansion.

[Leglibe]

I'm a midcore raider, and I've been having lots of fun progressing in Ultimate since UwU was released. It's an awesome goal to work towards and it makes getting the BiS set from Savage worth it. It's also extremely entertaining to watch on twitch, especially in the first days when everyone is still figuring stuff out. A lot of people seem to agree with that too because FFXIV never gets higher viewer numbers than when a new Ultimate is out.

Replacing hardcore content like Ultimate in exchange for some other content or, even worse, in exchange for nothing would be a big mistake.