Stop Gating Behind Older, Less Popular Questlines and Raids

[Memoranda]

Why is this even a thing? From what I gather the Return to Ivalice and associated Alliance Raids are among the least popular in the game. Why do I have to complete this line before I can start unlocking Bozja and resistance weapons? Is this Square's way of forcing players to partake in unpopular content? I could stomach doing the Crystal Tower stuff to progress ShB MSQ. But I really feel like I'm being punished for not being there to do Return to Ivalice when everyone else was.

Sorry, just had to rant a bit.

[Havenchild]

Why is this even a thing? From what I gather the Return to Ivalice and associated Alliance Raids are among the least popular in the game. Why do I have to complete this line before I can start unlocking Bozja and resistance weapons? Is this Square's way of forcing players to partake in unpopular content? I could stomach doing the Crystal Tower stuff to progress ShB MSQ. But I really feel like I'm being punished for not being there to do Return to Ivalice when everyone else was.

Sorry, just had to rant a bit.

What? Why can't you do Ivalice again?

[Krotoan]

Why is this even a thing? From what I gather the Return to Ivalice and associated Alliance Raids are among the least popular in the game. Why do I have to complete this line before I can start unlocking Bozja and resistance weapons?

Because of the story progression. I understand if you don't care.. but that's why.

[SpiralMask]

if they want to base a story [thing] or character in stuff that's been established in side content (remember when crystal tower was just a neat little FF3 reference raid with a kind of cringe OC-donut-steal catboy protagonist?) they've gotta make sure players have the context for what exactly's going on, since this is a story-heavy game.

also the FF12 team ivalice guy and yoshi-p have already mused about him returning to work on more ivalice content "when dalmasca is free again", which is looming ever closer.

[Jeeqbit]

Bozja is a continuation of the story of Ivalice.

[GrizzlyTank]

Unfortunately one of the reasons Bozja and the 4th legion story got gutted...

[KariTheFox]

I've personally never much liked the Ivalice raids, but weren't they actually fairly well liked at the time?

Edit: I like the raids themselves, I just didn't like the story much.

[Fhaerron]

Ivalice is to this day my most fav AR.
To me it was the only positive thing out of the SB expansion.

The problem with the long queu is, like others have pointed that everybody and their mother remove all the gear before queu-ing for AR roulette so they get lower Ilvl and lower tier raids.
An easy way to fix is would be to tie the availability to queu for item to your lvl & ilvl.
Like when you're lvl 60 you need to have the ilvl to do the lvl 60 AR roulette, once you get to lvl 70 you need the ilvl to do those AR, etc. And then when you queu it will randomly pick one of those you have access to.

[Faafetai]

There was a 30 minute wait time for healers for Dun Scaith when two friends in my fc finally unlocked it. People will ilvl cheese, go into crystal tower with broken gear, go in naked, or anything to get crystal tower. The amount of trolling I have seen in syrcus tower, where I live now, in the recent month has been insane compared to how it use to be. I am beginning to think people are just spam queueing for this even though they are already done with their relic grind. I sware to this forum when I finally get around to the Neir raid, I am queueing it a ton out of spite. I need to learn my rotation of classes besides hitting a dummy and I have gotten syrcus tower from level 50 to 70 on bard. I am sick of syrcus tower if they do not do something to fill the other alliance raids queues soon I will go mad! I am so sick of seeing syrcus tower! Sick of it! I want ivalice! I want something challenging!

[hagare]

you're DPS.
A 30 mins wait is nothing