Quote Originally Posted by dark494 View Post
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A development team doesn't nerf content two weeks after it's release if it's widely popular. In fact, FFXIV has a precedence for waiting several weeks or months to gauge player reception. Look how long they took adjusting Diadem or PvP. Considering how quickly these Pagos changes are coming, that speaks to its utter lack of mainstream appeal. Instances remain filled up because they're routinely being recycled. I suppose we ought to simply ignore the sheer number of people posting pictures where their instances have died, hmm? You know what else has thousands of clears? Ultimate. That amounts to less than 1% of the playerbase. As Billy said above, it make sound like a lot at face value but relative to the game's overall population, it's a drop in the bucket. A perfect example would be Savage. Did they reduce it's difficulty for the lulz or because clear rates were low, thus insinuating people didn't want to do it?

As for effort. You're speaking to someone with multiple Animas, Savage clears, Ultimate prog on both tiers and even the Whisper-a-Go-Go mount. So about that effort? Perhaps you should leave your baseless assumptions at the door. After all, you know what they say about assumptions...