Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
I avoided the last one because it wasn't worth the stress, so no we don't have to do it, but that doesn't make it good design.

FF14 has always been a game that respects your free time, then they suddenly turn around and create a competition where the only real way to reach top 12 is spend an unhealthy amount of time each day crafting the same recipe over and over, for 10 days straight. On top of this, while there were many legitimate top 12's, it's not a guarantee the top 12 ranking will be entirely free from bots.
Keep in mind this is the only endgame we have for DoH/DoL now, sure we can skip it but there's almost nothing else left besides a small dinosaur mount for 500 hours grind. Even if we aren't forced to participate there's nothing wrong with leaving feedback that it's terrible content.

For example, if they made an absolutely terrible Savage raid tier that was only available 10 days per patch and no other raids, do you think people would smile and say how it's fine because they aren't forced to run it?
Ishgard restoration is absolutely fantastic content. The only single bad issue with it is the rankings. Because all of you savage raiders descend on us and try to take them, then you cry to SE that it’s bad content so we won’t get something like this again.

Me and my friends spend literally all our time in the diadem and could care less about savage raiding. We do not call it ‘terrible content’.

Just because you don’t like something doesn’t make it bad. Ishgard restoration generally has been the best feature of the expansion for many people.