The "Limited time rewards" from Chaotic raids are too low/unimaginative

[NyanoChan]

So everyone who cleared during bonus time now knows that the limited time rewards are an extra 8 of the Demimateria I thrown randomly at your party, you can get 8 or you could get 0.

Now after most of the community who are engaging with this content has cleared, the bonus Demimateria II from new players clearing has also dried up.

Why do the developers always reward the community so little?
They knew that people complained after the Criterion dungeons that the rewards were bad, and barely even improved the rewards there.

Why can the developers not give extra drop items as a bonus for people to roll on? Or increase the odds of the rare items dropping during bonus times?

[Rehayem]

It's done that way because SE believes everyone will do the JP way -- queue through the duty finder rather than using PF. That way there's always some sort of guarantee there will be a new player. This is just my guess though, might be wrong.

[Immut]

The problem is there are no rewards they could possibly give you that would be interesting. They really programmed themselves into a corner with the streamlined gear and job design. Other games have near infinte possiblities, they could drop something that gives you +12.73% damage against fire aspected fish during odd numbered hours while facing northeast. But there's nothing like that here, so cosmetics and tier-relevant gear are all you get.

[Lilapop]

It's done that way because SE believes everyone will do the JP way -- queue through the duty finder rather than using PF. That way there's always some sort of guarantee there will be a new player. This is just my guess though, might be wrong.

JP way sounds a hell of a lot less toxic than the PF way.

[Rehayem]

JP way sounds a hell of a lot less toxic than the PF way.

To my knowledge, the JP community doesn't use PF at all. You queue through the duty finder and choose either option to your liking. Since they rely more on chat macros, people basically know what to do/where to go and just keep practicing that.

[Frost1800]

Based on my personal experience, the drop rate of rare items is increased during bonus hours. On average, there seems to be about one rare drop out of the entire alliance per clear on average, during the bonus hours. The materia I is there in case someone is not lucky enough to win the rare drop roll, which I do appreciate, as I did not win the roll for all the rare drops I see.

[Krojack]

I will say this...

You shouldn't be able to get the time bonus if you set a PF as "Duty Complete"

[Menriq]

I will say this...

You shouldn't be able to get the time bonus if you set a PF as "Duty Complete"

I'm curious as to why. Having 24 new people is going to be rough to get a clear. Perhaps the group already has a number of first timers, and are trying to fill out the rest of the group with those who have cleared. Trying to limit who can get the bonus is just going to open a bigger can of worms IMO.

[BigCheez]

I will say this...

You shouldn't be able to get the time bonus if you set a PF as "Duty Complete"

Why not?

Trying to strongarm people into farming in clear parties sounds like it would do nothing but further frustrate people who are already frustrated.

[Collin_Sky]

You realize the drop rates for the mounts/cosmetics are significantly increased during the bonus too, right?
Like, significantly increased.