So, how is Pyros?

[Moomba33]

There's an unofficial translation of an interview about the development of Eureka floating around on Reddit (not mine): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...6GzIzadxA/edit

Most interesting bit to me is it looks like Eureka is more popular than they thought it would be:

Y: As Mr. Nakagawa said, there were far more adventurers delved into Anemos than expected. We initially expected the Eureka playerbase to be mostly limited to people who are comfortable with the attribute of repetition or MMO players who are active communications. Pagos was basically the content that aimed this narrow “elite” player-base to go deeper. It was our fault to not expect that there would be much more casual players along as well.

I was under the impression that Eureka was meant to be a core feature of Stormblood but it looks like it was always intended as a niche activity. It performing above expectations might also explain why we didn't get official responses to the complaint/criticism threads.

Edit: This is somewhat off topic but I put it here since it's the most recent Eureka thread I saw.

[Tsumdere]

The interview was chock full of PR bullcrap.

In the same interview, they say it's niche grind content for elite players, but the designer of Eureka himself admits that it's easy and boring, so much so that HE afks in it.

Q: To think about it, FFXIV battle contents has the fun of learning the mistakes and getting through mechanics and specific rotations to make sure to have output from everyone. However, in the field, all you do is repeating the best damaging rotation and continuous hunting makes it mundane and sleepy... Do you have any plans to work to change on that?

N: We of course expected that kind of receptions from such part. However, even if we make Eureka bound to gameplay different to FFXIV damages the freedom to it and all about being sleepy means you can do that without much thought into it. Eureka could be the content that you visit whenever you don’t feel like doing too much work. Sometimes even myself just raise the hand (ノ) while watching a movie or something and it felt like giving the atmosphere of “I will logon for a while” ready so i think it wouldn’t be that bad to what it means to do Eureka.

[HiroesX81]

The interview was chock full of PR bullcrap.

In the same interview, they say it's niche grind content for elite players, but the designer of Eureka himself admits that it's easy and boring, so much so that HE afks in it.

Arent you kinda misinterpreting this? :P He's saying he does it in a relaxed manner, low-key stress-free like if he was playing 11. Even I understood that

[Tsumdere]

Arent you kinda misinterpreting this? :P He's saying he does it in a relaxed manner, low-key stress-free like if he was playing 11. Even I understood that

I think you need to read it again. He says nothing about FFXI in that question or the following questions regarding it.

He is saying they knew people would think it was boring and easy (sleepy and mundane is a nice way of saying that) but did it anyways because they wanted content that you could relax in. This is still the same interview where Pagos was supposed to weed out casual players.

Then he literally says he watches a movie and raises his hand (ノ) when, presumably, a NM spawns. That's what JP afkers do. It is the equivalent of NA's (inv nm).

So - We know it's boring and easy. We wanted to be able to relax in it. We want it to be content where you don't have to do much work. Sometimes I relax in it, since I watch a movie and raise my hand (ノ) [inferenced : when nm spawns. since this is what it is used for].