Castrum is dead. Please do something, Squenix

[SturmChurro]

I'd rather farm Castrum for memories over FATE's, personally.

Imagine being a game dev and rather than encourage players to do your new content, you encourage them to do 4 year old content instead - and not even the good stuff.

For that matter, we already had to grind these same FATEs for HW relic, so.. what exactly was SE's thought process here? I can understand, maybe they wanted to get players to work on their old relics at the same time, admirable, but they have made these FATEs more rewarding for memories than anything Borzja could offer. It's nonsensical, in my opinion. Also, coins. I can do FATEs in borzja, or the big bosses, because of the amount of time inbetween Castrum qeueus, EVEN IF you could get enough players to do it, there is no point. People can just continue to gather their coins through the zone, at a MUCH higher efficiency. Better than even registering for Castrum and clearing it.

[Deceptus]

Imagine being a game dev and rather than encourage players to do your new content, you encourage them to do 4 year old content instead - and not even the good stuff.

For that matter, we already had to grind these same FATEs for HW relic, so.. what exactly was SE's thought process here? I can understand, maybe they wanted to get players to work on their old relics at the same time, admirable, but they have made these FATEs more rewarding for memories than anything Borzja could offer. It's nonsensical, in my opinion. Also, coins. I can do FATEs in borzja, or the big bosses, because of the amount of time inbetween Castrum qeueus, EVEN IF you could get enough players to do it, there is no point. People can just continue to gather their coins through the zone, at a MUCH higher efficiency. Better than even registering for Castrum and clearing it.

The FFXIV Developers love to "revitalize old content' by making current relic hunters do old stuff. Has happened since 3.0

[Morningstar1337]

The FFXIV Developers love to "revitalize old content' by making current relic hunters do old stuff. Has happened since 3.0

AFAIK, Eureka weapons didn't seem to involve doing old content in any way shape or form.

[SturmChurro]

The FFXIV Developers love to "revitalize old content' by making current relic hunters do old stuff. Has happened since 3.0

Morningstar above makes a good point. Eureka you at last had to do Eureka, if I remember correctly. I'm pretty sure people complained about that. I suppose this is what we get with the combination of fan feedback, and SE recycling content constantly.

[Random0]

For that matter, we already had to grind these same FATEs for HW relic, so.. what exactly was SE's thought process here?

Just so happened that this content which encouraged veteran players to populate Heavensward zones came out about the same time as the expansion of the Free Trial to cover all the Heavensward zones, making it easier for Free Trial players to complete fates and be exposed to vets who can speak to what else the game has beyond the Free Trial. Hmm...

[Deceptus]

Just so happened that this content which encouraged veteran players to populate Heavensward zones came out about the same time as the expansion of the Free Trial to cover all the Heavensward zones, making it easier for Free Trial players to complete fates and be exposed to vets who can speak to what else the game has beyond the Free Trial. Hmm...

This guy gets it. It was done to revitalize old content.

[LalafellDown]

Castrum should reward 5 each of the memories and 2 of the greens ones. Along with 100 coins. Honestly after maxing my level in a couple of days I’ve seen it all. All the fates and all the fights. There’s not much content there. Chasing weapons seems to be the only reason, but why make it so boring and long? How many times do I need to fight the same fate to say, “yeah, I get it.”

Please buff everything maybe add more things to do per weapon or add a horizontal grind for our weapons and gear.

[Masked-dingus]

There’s not much content there. Chasing weapons seems to be the only reason,

Not even, since HW fates are faster and with a 100% chance of rewards + no need to be an instanced area with death penalties etc...
Just did my other relics that way, Bozja has litteraly 0 content in it ( that's why Castrum will be required for the next step )

I've hated Eureka's design, but i didn't think they would go to the other extreme for DhB

[Payadopa]

Not even, since HW fates are faster and with a 100% chance of rewards + no need to be an instanced area with death penalties etc...

Eh.
I'll take fun content where you have to use your brain (in some of the FATEs anyway) over the min-max route any day.
When you read this forum you'd be forgiven to think that having fun is an alien concept to XIV players. lol

[Masked-dingus]

Eh.
I'll take fun content where you have to use your brain (in some of the FATEs anyway) over the min-max route any day.
When you read this forum you'd be forgiven to think that having fun is an alien concept to XIV players. lol

Well, the problem with Bozja when you think about it, it's that it's not fun content, when you look at what it is in the end, it's also JUST fate grinding but for LESS chances of getting a reward, so it's normal people are choosing the easiest way between too identical things

( i would love to get fun content as well instead of fates don't get me wrong )