Highly Notorious Monsters

[Cichy]

Yes! Let's listen to the voice of reason here!

Driving a stake through the heart of a game would be not listening to a large mass of people who are calling for the implementation of HNM's. Driving a stake through the heart of a game would be not implementing MORE content that an obvious large amount of players are seemingly interested in!

/e: Before you call for the "No-Like button", I as well wish they had one. Despite that, after reading every page of this thread, and counting the "In-Favor" vs "Against" crowd, I will be generous and say there is a 25% dislike, and 75% like amonst posts in this thread. I think 75% is a pretty good percentage, and would validate the idea that maybe they should look into some form of HNM, care to disagree?

Mr. Yoshi, the above poster claims HNM's drove thousands of people away, despite the fact that the last FF MMO title with HNM's held over 500,000 people in game at one point in time. I have a hard time believing that HNM's killed FFXI, but hey, that's just my opinion!

Furthermore, it becomes even more clear that the above poster failed to read up on the thread before he posted, as per the usual. I think he failed to comprehend the many pages on how we would like to come together and bring HNM's into the game with different aspects of implementation to nullify botting, cheating, and all the negative things that can coincide. People will always find ways to exploit certain aspects of the game, this comes with Open-World, Instanced, Duping etc. This will always happen, and it is up to the developer to change the code and fix the issues, and ban the abusers. Square-Enix should not deny the game certain content for the sole reason of possible exploits, as they can be patched.

You are beyond delusional. Where do you even get all this.
Large mass of people? This game has a drop of a bucket of populations that it needs, out of that drop only fraction goes to the forum, out of that fraction only few vote for this dumb idea. I hope the devs realize that.

Alhanelem, pretty much already said most things that are wrong with your logic. There were 500k users at one point because XI was one of the only MMOs out there. And out of that like he said 1-5% ever participated in this snooze/botfest called HNMs. Most people never ever killed even a Fafnir. I've camped HNMs for 6 years, and 90% of the people were same people there. Which was 3-5 linkshells.

People need to get over the notion that claiming a NM makes you a special snowflake. You say you're only asking for something for everyone to do where one the fist page you say Open World NMs + Amazing Gears.
Amazing gear alone will create same type of environment that XI had.
You dont want to compete with anyone, you just want feel like a special snowflake once more.

Content should be based on difficulty and progression and not the best bot people have.
Content like Salvage, ZNMs, Limbus, is way to go. Have people clear something before they can advance and make it increasingly more difficult. Than even though not everyone is able to clear it/get loot, everyone has fair chance at attempting it. And this is the main problem that XI had with HNMs. You can argue all you want but 90% of the population had no chance in hell at even attempting them.

The only way I could ever see open world HNMs be implemented is give them 30min-1h rage timer and 5 min repop.
Even than, if it's amazing gear, you'll have people bot them.