Quote Originally Posted by JBee View Post
I would consider only allowing you into instanced content - you know, where the majority of the game takes place - by way of a fully premade group as too hefty.

You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.
You can put a blue mask on a minigame, but it's still a minigame.

I haven't been this disappointed in a company's decision for an mmo in a very long time.
Perhaps I come too much from the stand point of running content with my FC & friends and when I've done endgame content, it has been through party finder. 24 man raids I can see being impacted badly, but that was not really in the forefront of my mind thinking about this as I've hated and avoided Return to Ivalice (despite loving FFXII). I still have my reservations about it, I am hoping for the better case scenario. Maybe the effect of all this is that people end up using the Party Finder more, which some regions do.

Whilst I am still in two minds, I am not seeing it as the doom and gloom it is painted as. We'll have to see how this actually works out in practice, because that is where my scepticism lies, because history has shown that SE don't always get it right in practice, as one who though Eureka was a great idea, but hate how it was implemented whereby they became glorified fate trians.

But if I can do content as a premade group and can still do it via party finder and get a job that I enjoy and love playing and feels like a true blue mage, then I may (whilst begrudgingly) take the hit that I can't use duty finder for it. Of course, the job will have to be worth it in the end.