Quote Originally Posted by Aidorouge View Post
Even with Forked Tower now I'm just left confused as to why they changed it all if NA and JP (and EU) were forcing themselves through it anyway and clearing it all willy-nilly as you say and no boycott from anyone ever actually occurred.
It was the social stigma that was developing around it that was the concern. You had people who had no idea that there was discord groups and they would go up and put in a cipher and take one of the spots, most likely unprepared and could potentially screw up the raid, not bring the required jobs, taking the spot of lets say a time mage or thief or bard. There was also the mechs that could one shot all 48 people (snowball, fireball, bridges, rune axe, holy lance) that lead to even more scrutiny. On top of this, there was the sophomoric vision that the devs had for how participation of the raid itself (24 veterans taking 24 newbies through the raid) Basically so many factors that could lead to a unknowing person becoming a pariah and then ostracized by the community. And as of this document, clear rates are very minimal across all data centers. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...#gid=621297886 We have nothing official after the live letter saying they had 400 clears back in June.