Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
There was no issue with Lost Actions.

However, casual players were not smart enough to use them or understand them. So they went into DR without them and DR took 40-60 minutes instead of 20 minutes. The bosses took so long that it was miserable and made me not want to do it again. The fights themselves were really good, yet the lack of action usage was that bad.

A benefit of Phantom Jobs is it's something casual players are far more likely to grasp.
False.

The problem was acquisition. Some of the fragments had terrible droprates, and on top of that RNG you had another layer of RNG with the appraisal system. So you could farm 100 fragments and only end up with 10 of the essence you wanted. Casual players didn't want to spend 40 hours a week farming fragments just to be able to do the raid twice, or buy them off the AH for 100 billion gil only to appraise into useless garbage. If the droprate wasn't crap and there were more fragments in the economy than anyone needed then casuals would've been able to use them more. But some people are too greedy and wanted them to be rare and valuable so they could farm them and make money, and the content itself suffered and now the pendulum swung all the way in the other direction so there aren't logograms/fragments to worry about at all and we get less interesting actions to go with it.