Instead of cutting Ultimate from 5.5 why not cut bozja?

[MPK]

Yes, why cut the content that like 5% or less of the game's population will do in favor of content that the majority of the population can do?.

Most achievement tracking sites says around 10% and this is only for public profiles! It's not hard to imagine that maybe around 15-20% of the people does ultimate!

Now tell me whats accessible about the new FORTY EIGHT MAN SAVAGE! They should've cutted that out! No one even watched prog on that on twitch either!

Now we have an even less accessible content! For ultimate you just need to clear savage, for this new content you need to farm your essence, your logos, cap out in some mind numbing content, clear a content that no one does, clear another soon to be dead 24 man content, farm BiS by praying to RNG gods in a content that no one does anymore for augmented gear, and don't forget you need to find 47 other players instead of just 7 other players!

Ultimate was way more accessible than this garbage!

BIG EDIT: Don't forget they decided to work on more pvp garbage that no one plays in the next expansion!

[Steviejd]

Holy overuse of exclamation points...

[Steviejd]

Forget about these people, no words will reach them.

To them it's all casual while calling us selfish and projecting all kinds of nonsense. Just because some of us don't like this they constantly mention how little people actually cared. I don't know but being here on this forum for not even a day or two is already mentally exhausting. I don't have a problem with casual content but they seem to want our kind out of the game altogether.

It's far more mentally exhausting for casual players. All I see on this forum are so-called 'hardcore' players whining that they aren't being catered for so you are being very revisionistic. You are literally in a thread with someone saying that they want casual content cut for their 'hardcore' content which they probably suck at anyway.

[DarkDaifuku]

Keep in mind that it is the pandemic that caused the delay, not because of Bozja.
You have the IRL Garlemald to thanks for this.

[Kaurhz]

Forget about these people, no words will reach them.

To them it's all casual while calling us selfish and projecting all kinds of nonsense. Just because some of us don't like this they constantly mention how little people actually cared. I don't know but being here on this forum for not even a day or two is already mentally exhausting. I don't have a problem with casual content but they seem to want our kind out of the game altogether.

Nah not many people actually have this impression contrary to your belief, and in fact, arguably a lot of people would be sympathetic to the cause if it was expressed properly. The issue just arises when people seem to be of the understanding that those developing one piece of content e.g. PvP, Triple Triad, are also equally qualified to be touching on or doing Ultimate content, or vice versa with those doing Ultimate content touching on other areas of the game. It's not an effective use of developer time to send people into areas that they clearly would be unqualified for, and sure this is one thing. But then more issues come about when you propose that, because I don't like content, therefore it should be dropped mentality, irrespective of the backlash it has from other areas or spaces of the community. It's not really a good way to make a point, all you're only ever going to get people that rise up in arms all so eager to suckle enjoyment out of the misfortune. Probably deservingly so in fact. This works for both sides of coin, really.

Nah drop PvP? How do you think people that enjoy PvP would feel about this, or who have interest in seeing PvP get, I don't know? Better?

Nah drop Triple Triad updates, it's useless! How do you think some people particularly those that are collectionists or completionists feel about this, despite the very fact people have for a long time expressed disapproval for how Triple Triad has been implemented or worked

Nah drop 24-man or 48-man, nobody cares about it! How about the simple fact that some people would and do genuinely enjoy this content since it is a relatively untouched, and new space; 48-man savage anyway.

Nah drop Bozja, it's crap anyway, nobody likes it! I can assure you plenty of people enjoy this, what about the people that enjoy this and the story contained therein.

If you want to complain about something, don't make it come at the point of proposing to cut off content from other people; you'll only get backlash for it lol

[Steviejd]

I have edited my post, I don't agree with the OP in this regard. But for every post like this you have someone with the exact same mentality wanting something gone they find too difficult.

Sure and I disagree with them too, that is a whataboutism though.

Ultimate has been delayed, it sucks, I get it, but it is still coming. They even had a segment going over what goes into making Ultimate fights, it's not easy, especially with the current situation around the world and how they've been delayed because of it. They are already delaying the expansion and I'm sure they are having to pour so much of their resources into that right now. Don't forget that not only do they have us to please they also have the big bosses at SE to please and their share-holders. Ultimate won't bring in the money but a new expansion will.

[Liam_Harper]

I want the game to cater to me! ME ME ME ME ME!!!

Some of the overreaction and selfishness in this thread is awful. I get being disappointed that some content that you were looking forward to will not be there but please have some perspective...

Casual players get 95% of the content.

Hardcore players give negative feedback when some of the 5% scraps they get are cut even further. Casual players react by turning caps lock on and calling those players "selfish", before returning to their wide variety of content specifically catered to them, that they would cause absolute uproar over if any of it was ever turned hardcore.

The last Ultimate was in 2019 and the next likely won't be until 2022. The complaints are reasonable.

[Steviejd]

It seems to me alot of people think if they lose out on an argument it means something they are in favour of will be lost. Effectively losing a battle which means that content will be lost, and this etc.

The way OP has formulated or should I say expressed themselves is very poor and immature, true, but guess what. People love drama, no one wants to see a rational and honest discussion these days. People seem to take their own frustration out on everyone else these days irrespectable of the consequences this has on a grander scale. This happens all the time. We lose content we like, and someone has to shove their boot in our mouths. I understand the frustration OP has, even though worded poorly, intentional or not.

Now Ultimate is on the noose. While casuals are bathing in content, we are losing way more and I suppose this is the reason for all this desperation.

The whole problem is the "us against them" mentality I keep seeing, it's stupidly dividing the playerbase. Also you say that hardcore players have nothing but what is the 48-man savage? That's certainly not casual content.

The dev team have obviously had to prioritise due to covid and a lack of resources and the dev team obviously have data to help them decide which pieces of content to prioritise and what parts of the team can do what. The same people creating Farmville :FFXIV Edition would not be the same people developing Ultimate.

Anyway it is the same with all MMO's. If you go to any of their forums (WoW, ESO etc) it is the same with people bitching, complaining and whining.

[DarkDaifuku]

Most achievement tracking sites says around 10% and this is only for public profiles! It's not hard to imagine that maybe around 15-20% of the people does ultimate!

Now tell me whats accessible about the new FORTY EIGHT MAN SAVAGE! They should've cutted that out! No one even watched prog on that on twitch either!

Now we have an even less accessible content! For ultimate you just need to clear savage, for this new content you need to farm your essence, your logos, cap out in some mind numbing content, clear a content that no one does, clear another soon to be dead 24 man content, farm BiS by praying to RNG gods in a content that no one does anymore for augmented gear, and don't forget you need to find 47 other players instead of just 7 other players!

Ultimate was way more accessible than this garbage!

BIG EDIT: Don't forget they decided to work on more pvp garbage that no one plays in the next expansion!

There are Discord for this 48 players savage, has been going nice and smooth at least on the static I joined there, we even cleared the first boss and trash boss and progged the second boss last night.
You can exchange Pure essence fragment with cluster/buy from mb, also lost actions depends on the alliance, there is no annoying mixing of logos like Eureka.
It is hard to find another 7 players for BLU Morbol mount achievement too, I dislike how "bottleneck" it is to get this reward myself, but I am happy many enjoyed it.

The Garlemald related story are probably on a higher priority to lay the foundation for story in 6.0, they mentioned the dev started the development of 6.0 expansion at the beginning of 5.0.
So they probably have all the story laid for Bozja/Garlemald story at the beginning of the expansion.

Ultimate is probably developing from less existing resource/model/mech they have to build specify for it.

As for PVP, they want player to casually play PVP without waiting for queue too long.

I know it is upsetting for many hardcore players that they delayed the new Ultimate, but please understand the devs have been doing their best, and all of their hardworked creations are far from garbage.
No one expected the pandemic to hit so hard in Japan, otherwise they could have release Ultimate/Ishgard housing in the end of SHB.

[Steviejd]

Casual players get 95% of the content.

Hardcore players give negative feedback when some of the 5% scraps they get are cut even further. Casual players react by turning caps lock on and calling those players "selfish", before returning to their wide variety of content specifically catered to them, that they would cause absolute uproar over if any of it was ever turned hardcore.

The last Ultimate was in 2019 and the next likely won't be until 2022. The complaints are reasonable.

I would love to know where you have pulled those numbers from... Have you done the Ultimate we have had so far, have you done savage Delubrum Reginae?

It's harder to make more difficult content, it's that simple, especially with the delay/home working. It's hard to QA and tune the content as you need devs that are good enough to test the content.

Like I said, I understand being disappointed I really do, but please don't turn on casual players or create a "us versus them" situation, it really does not help the community.