Labyrinth and Syrcus Tower...

[Driavna]

I have a rather simple question for you. What's the reason you're queuing for Alliance http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/f...ssionRoulette?

People queue for the bonus, but is also nice to have some variance from time to time. However, the roulette is there to fill up

Idk, I can queue up for Orbonne and it pops in about 20 mins, the same time it takes to pop a Q for LotA

I like to collect minions so from time to time I try to que for any 24m that I missing the pet. Well, even if I que right after the roulette reset for Orbonne I have been waiting for more than an hour before giving up. If I que right away for regular alliance roulette I going inside in an instant.

[Flay_wind]

I know it wasn't directed at me, but if you don't mind my answer your question. It is named alliance roulette, so I would like to assume it would allow me to participate in one of the many alliance raids that are made available in the game. That and I find it is also in place to try and assist newer players or people leveling their alts to have a decent que time for getting through content they are interested in.

I understand there are a group of players that enjoy lowering their ilvl because they would much rather face roll through content rather than "waste their time", and while I respect that that they want to play the game their own way, I still think there should be some kind of system in place to make it more "roulette" like and less "Okay, so it's either WoD or LoTA today."

That's a fair point. On one hand it's a good system in theory. Help newer people to run older content. It works to a point. On the other hand there are rewards as an incentive, but said rewards are the same no matter what the difficulty of Dungeon/Trial/Raid etc, etc. And that's where we are currently. People want rewards and do not want difficulty associated with obtaining said rewards.

[RoyalBeef]

Yes, weed you out. You know, for exploiting an oversight in the system and worsening the experience for others.

I regularly participate in organized SB alliance raid-athons to help people learn all 3 of them and eventually get their clears in a laid back enviroment without abandons and without rage quits. I do so when I'm in the right mood and have the time for it. I don't get any rewards out of it. So tell me more about how I make the experience for players on my Datacenter worse.

[Driavna]

That's a fair point. On one hand it's a good system in theory. Help newer people to run older content. It works to a point. On the other hand there are rewards as an incentive, but said rewards are the same no matter what the difficulty of Dungeon/Trial/Raid etc, etc. And that's where we are currently. People want rewards and do not want difficulty associated with obtaining said rewards.

I going to disagree, people want extremely easy content. Even if SE up the rewards I venture to say people will still be lowering their ILvL because the chance of not being available to clear certain raids is there (and is not the content is super hard or anything). Already happen with normal trials like Titania, it's not that rare having players leaving right away.

Someone used MSQ as an example with people leaving Castrum for Praetorium, they do that because both are equally easy and nothing else.

[Suniva]

That's a fair point. On one hand it's a good system in theory. Help newer people to run older content. It works to a point. On the other hand there are rewards as an incentive, but said rewards are the same no matter what the difficulty of Dungeon/Trial/Raid etc, etc. And that's where we are currently. People want rewards and do not want difficulty associated with obtaining said rewards.

I've been playing long enough to remember when we didn't have dailies. When new players would come to the game and where pretty much screwed unless they were in an FC so that they could have people run them through the story dungeons. The whole daily roulette system was put in place to help address that problem before it became too much of an issue. The fact that people "cheese" the system nowadays the way that they do, in my opinion, defeats the entire purpose of why it was implemented to begin with. So again, I know these are my own personal beliefs, but this is why I stand by my argument as I do.

[Vidu]

I'll queue for whatever I like and if I want to cheese the ilevel I will. Sorry if it doesn't meet with your approval. They need to adjust the experience for the duty based on the content. 50 level raids, 60 level raids and 70 level raids should not get the same experience. They do that with Main story with Praetorium and Castrum. Interesting to see people leave when they get Castrum cause they prefer the longer duty.

Also interesting to see how many people run Main when here on this forum the going banter was no one would ever run it with unskippable cutscenes.

Make it worth the time and people will want the higher level duties.

Yeah or they need to adjust the system so that you simply cant queue for the roulette if you dont meet the ilvl requirement for all duties of your level...

[Silica-chan]

Personally I don't mind getting them often sine I love the Chrystal Tower raids. The only problem I have with them right now is how bad they sync us down. I mean just roll trough them with enough damage, barely worrying what the boss does or handling his mechanics at all makes me kinda sad. There are alot of interesting fights which new players will almost never get to experience properly since bosses all die so fast.

Come on SE you can do better than this.

[RoyalBeef]

Those players are very few and far in between. There's a vast difference when queing up for an MSQ and it takes less than 5 minutes and if you que for Orbonne it takes 20 minutes or more (Had a friend that was farming the tank glamour and one day she was in que for well over 2 hours).

20 minutes are a pretty common Queue time for basically everything on my DC as DPS, so I don't see the issue, aside from people being spoiled by insta queues.

[Driavna]

20 minutes are a pretty common Queue time for basically everything on my DC as DPS, so I don't see the issue, aside from people being spoiled by insta queues.

I really want an SS about this, because it is true I will even consider moving.

[Suniva]

20 minutes are a pretty common Queue time for basically everything on my DC as DPS, so I don't see the issue, aside from people being spoiled by insta queues.

That's fine you don't see an issue. If you think it is fine for you, then that is your own personal belief. However, there are other players (myself being one) that would enjoy the variety that comes from using a system that carries "roulette" in the name rather than seeing the same two instances repeatedly since the other group wants to cheese the system. You and I have clearly two different perspectives on the matter, and right now, the way I would like the system to be used is severely undermined by those who share your sentiments. I don't think it is particularly fair that one group gets to rig the system in their favor to get what they want while the other group is left being disappointed by the lack of variety.

As someone suggested earlier in the discussion, fixing the rewards would be one way to make it worthwhile to players. There is very much an imbalance in the rewards considering how much easier it is to do the ARR raids rather than the SB ones. I don't see why there shouldn't be a discussion to try and resolve the issue to make it satisfying for both camps.