Quote Originally Posted by Raven2014 View Post
Here is when you see the Dev's intend and player's style is not aligned.

99 totems is a horrible # ... true ... but only if you try to grind through it in a couple of week. 1 totem a day, 99 totems is a little over 3 months, you think it's a coincidence they don't let you buy the mount earlier than that? The reason why you don't see they let you buy the early mount is for this exact expectation. The dev expected ... or rather hope, the player will pace themself out and keep the content alive over a long period of time.


But the players of course don't give a crap about that expectation. It doesn't matter how many totems it needs, most people gonna want to get it "done" in a few weeks. Then we complain about the grind of no lifeing PF multiple runs a day, then we complain about the long wait until we can buy it. Whether if you just do 1 run a day (so it doesn't feel like a grind) and would still get enough totems before the mount available to buy anyway. But no human can be that reasonable, SE is kidding themselves if they think the players don't prefer to torture themselves.
Yes. Players torturing themselves = keeps subs running. People are silly to think there are not revenue analysts on the FFXIV team looking at trends for YoshiP and seeing "yeah 99 works, there is this % of the player base that keeps repeating these fights, leave it as-is until the content is outdated".

Endsinger EX content would be absolutely dead content by now if the drop rate was say 50%. These fights don't have a lot of replay value in the first place because they are much easier nowadays, mainly just i395 weapon for alt jobs, useless for those clearing P4S for months. Nothing to really use i395 for, it's not good enough for DSR ultimate, basically saving tomes and page/coffer drops.