One dungeon per patch!?

[HyoMinPark]

At no point did I say that they should eliminate Ultimate. First, because any MMO should have a level escalation from casual to hardcore.

Apologies...but that has been implied repeatedly in your posts throughout this thread. At the very least, you’re implying that the game would be better off without the Ultimate fights in favor of focusing on more “casual” content.

At the end of the day, I doubt that the existence of Ultimate is what ultimately cost us the extra dungeons. In SB, the developers expressly said that the extra dungeon for every other patch was cut to focus on things like Eureka and BLU. Not Ultimate. Ultimate only has two developers that can even work on it.

FFXIV is a casual game and that's what makes it grow. Other MMOs tried to please the hardcore community and died, as is the case with Wildstar.

FFXIV is still immensely casual even with the presence of Ultimate. Everything had been made easier over the years. EX primals and Savage are a shadow of what they used to be. Jobs are constantly dumbed down as the expansions pass to close the gap between higher tier players and the lower tier ones.

And as far as everyone can do Ultimate... no. Just like the mythic one in WoW, people either don't have the skill, the time, or the interest to see everything you have to invest in order to have ilvl and a shiny weapon to show in Limsa.

You didn’t read what I said. I said:

“I also think anyone can tackle and clear Ultimate if they put in the time and effort into it.” This includes things such as “gitting gud”, finding a static (because Ultimate is not very puggable), setting aside time/forming a schedule to prog, being willing to set aside enough time for the content (different prog mentalities mean you will spend different amounts of time in it—more causal prog mindsets will take longer than a more hardcore mindset; you have to ask yourself if you are willing to endure long prog times or not, because Ultimate is an endurance test), and then actually progging and learning the content with the intent to clear. Of course not everyone has an interest in doing it—there are even really good raiders that have no interest in it even though they could easily clear—but everyone has the capability to tackle the content if they try for it.