Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
How about instead of suggesting players fix a problem SE created due to their severe lack of foresight, we demand better from the company we're paying a subscription fee to? It isn't as if people haven't tried to put up parties either. They rarely fill because people don't want to wait around for over an hour when they can hop to Aether and have 30 parties to choose from. Even if that means logging in at 3am just to sneak under the congestion restriction. It's still better despite losing access to your retainers and house.
Which is the big problem, you can't even just say "ok I'mma hop over to Aether for raid night." You have to go early and spend the day. It becomes like clocking in to work rather than something reasonable for a video game. I guess raiding really is something you have to treat like a job rather than a hobby nowadays, then?

With that aside, you will never see NA adopt JP strats. Not only is it already a huge ask just getting people to raid outside Aether, you're not going to spring a strat on them that nobody else uses in our region? That's doomed to fail before it even gets off the ground.
It's still a big question why sufficient pressure cannot be applied in this direction, though.

JP strats are literally designed around the needs of PF (or even DF, sometimes!) - to be executed by a random PUG group with minimal need for external comms and to minimize the chances of something going wrong.

In other words, the sort of thing you'd think NA PF would want, given that mostly what people seem to do is complain about how often things go wrong in PF and the need to keep joining discords to do anything.

Why do we keep adopting horribly counterproductive pug strats then to the point there seems to be no good alternative that doesn't involve either quarter second pings (Materia often does use JP-similar strats IIUC) or having to get fluent enough in Japanese to avoid friction on Mana?

What if we want to play FFXIV rather than FFLogs (which seems to be the only purpose of these rickety, overly cheeky uptime strats that have no good place in a PUG)?

Again, it basically seems that unless you speak JP or live in OCE you're being told "sorry, gotta adopt the jerb mentality or this content's not for you" with no viable alternative. In other words, that it's over, FFLogs is the game you have to play now and FFXIV is just the platform you use to do it ...