Why is diadem a duty?

[NekoMataMata]

I thought this back when I first bothered with it, and I recently was thinking about it again.

Because it's a duty you can't jump into it while queueing up with other content. It would be a nice activity for those long queues that you get stuck in sometimes.

[Deveryn]

It's another duty that got repurposed.

[Canadane]

It's another duty that got repurposed.

Indeed. People who weren't around back in the day don't remember the previous two or three versions of The Diadem we had.
I kinda miss it.

[Deceptus]

It's another duty that got repurposed.

2 extra times

[R041]

There are so many side system Duties that just need to be open world content and use the actual environments created off of MSQ. It's very frustrating, but I do understand it to some extent - Part of the reason is the ability to make them cross-DC.

[Deveryn]

There are so many side system Duties that just need to be open world content and use the actual environments created off of MSQ. It's very frustrating, but I do understand it to some extent - Part of the reason is the ability to make them cross-DC.

Open world wouldn't have the same flexibility that the duty version offers. Aside from opening up to the whole DC, you also have things like the duty action and limit bar which just wouldn't exist in an open world setting. It allows gatherers to level up without being fully progressed on main story.

[NekoMataMata]

Open world wouldn't have the same flexibility that the duty version offers. Aside from opening up to the whole DC, you also have things like the duty action and limit bar which just wouldn't exist in an open world setting. It allows gatherers to level up without being fully progressed on main story.

Maybe not open world but what's to stop them from putting it in a non-duty instance?

[Deveryn]

Maybe not open world but what's to stop them from putting it in a non-duty instance?

What's to stop them? It's already in place and not worth migrating just so people can queue something else. You go to diadem to do serious gathering, not pass a little time in between queues. There are plenty of other places to gather while you wait for your spot.

[Fawkes]

Maybe not open world but what's to stop them from putting it in a non-duty instance?

I assume they do it that way because they expect it to be popular at launch and don't want people hogging it up AFK. In a duty you'll get kicked after a few minutes of being AFK. If they just made it regular zone with instances then everyone would AFK there and all the instances would be packed full all the time (at launch, at least), which then also causes other problems like making it hard for people to go into their houses because of how the instance server works.

[R041]

Open world wouldn't have the same flexibility that the duty version offers. Aside from opening up to the whole DC, you also have things like the duty action and limit bar which just wouldn't exist in an open world setting. It allows gatherers to level up without being fully progressed on main story.

Now, see I know you're letting spaghetti engineering limitations get to your brain, and think we can't have nice things. But we already have BLU, Role Actions, Level Sync in open world - So that tells us it all shouldn't really matter with adding random skills that activate / deactivate by area and FATE. It probably just comes down to them not wanting to have maximum instance with CPU intensive activities always running. When they can just have single instances of everything intensive like Bozja.

Not allowing Gatherers to level up because of MSQ progress is a symptom of their own design philosophies, and it's really up to them in how they want to force everyone into these world limited engagements. We shouldn't be sitting here making excuses for them, when we know what they can do. They've chosen to remove instead of add over the years.

Also, we have Chocobos with abilities. So what would even be the problem with giving us more open world specific abilities that don't go into Duties? Tank and Healer feel pretty horrible solo and open world, give them cool stuff. Why always the anti-fun? Give me big numbers, nukes, why's everything always gotta be 2 minute burn-downs with lame samey rotations?