Why did Forked Tower reuse the BA entry system LOL

[Chasingstars]

Forked Tower: Blood was designed to be more like Baldesion Arsenal, a raid from the Eureka Field Operation in Stormblood, after feedback that the Bozjan Southern Front - Shadowbringers' equivalent - didn't task players with engaging with the world as much, as a sort of middle-ground. Almost immediately, however, the feedback started pouring in that players found attempting the Forked Tower: Blood - Occult Crescent's 48-player raid - was even more frustrating than Baldesion Arsenal, which the team had not anticipated.

"I do feel that Forked Tower: Blood was a misstep in development. It wasn't meant to be hardcore content, so to speak. The intention was that it might be more difficult at first, but over time more players might be willing to take on the challenge; yet, in the end we made it too difficult for players to even get into the raid in the first place. That's why we're making adjustments with 7.3, and why some of those adjustments were pushed even earlier than that. [...] That's why we're revising our roadmap to account for this feedback in patch 7.5."

Yoshida also reflected that the team may have been putting too much focus on a player's individual responsibility, and how a single person's failure could have such a profound impact on the whole party.

The left hand doesn't know what the right is doing.

[SkankyRoe]

So at that anime expo that happened, we got a few more details https://www.rpgsite.net/interview/17...ward-to-future Most of it is about the future but he did make a few comments on OC and FT.

So the truth finally comes out, and it is indeed yet another case of "oops we made it savage teehee".

[LaylaTsarra]

The world content there is definitely worse than Bozja. Bozja 2.0 would have been welcomed. There is no point of doing anything in this zone unless you are doing forked. It's wild.

Bingo! Spend no time there and I've done my main and two alts and that it for me. Doing Bozja again and tackling field notes. Queuing for CE's and doing fates at leisure as I please not running all over a map constantly to even attempt to get credit for a fate. And whoever thought atma would be a good idea has truly lost it. It's nothing but frustrating and certainly something people will do with their main and not their alts.

Castrum and Delibrium and soon Dalraidia when my level 21 hits 25 are all things I enjoy doing over and over. They'd better rethink what's coming before this zone is history for many.

[YovelaLindswood]

Their rationale behind how Forked operated was...


They felt that Delubrum had too many support systems. Whatever that means I have no idea....

So of course, in their 'infinite' wisdom elected that a model closer to BA was more suitable.

Translation: Delubrum had too many ways for players to express freedom of build and we detected fun. The issue has been corrected. Have a nice day.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

So at that anime expo that happened, we got a few more details[...]

Forked Tower: Blood was designed to be more like Baldesion Arsenal, a raid from the Eureka Field Operation in Stormblood, after feedback that the Bozjan Southern Front - Shadowbringers' equivalent - didn't task players with engaging with the world as much, as a sort of middle-ground. Almost immediately, however, the feedback started pouring in that players found attempting the Forked Tower: Blood - Occult Crescent's 48-player raid - was even more frustrating than Baldesion Arsenal, which the team had not anticipated.

It already happened once in the past - twice probably if you want to count OG Diadem but I think that's a stretch imo; yet for some reason they did not anticipate this happening this time around? Disasterrific.

"I do feel that Forked Tower: Blood was a misstep in development. It wasn't meant to be hardcore content, so to speak. The intention was that it might be more difficult at first, but over time more players might be willing to take on the challenge; yet, in the end we made it too difficult for players to even get into the raid in the first place. That's why we're making adjustments with 7.3, and why some of those adjustments were pushed even earlier than that. [...] That's why we're revising our roadmap to account for this feedback in patch 7.5."

Yoshida also reflected that the team may have been putting too much focus on a player's individual responsibility, and how a single person's failure could have such a profound impact on the whole party.

Thanks for finally admitting that the casual to midcores (I'm using the term very loosely here) are basically not the target audience to begin with. Took them long enough to spill that out. Now how about they actually put their money where their mouth on instead of doing too much these disaster-control speech? Doing too much of the latter can be costly yanno...

[TeresaFortell]

So the truth finally comes out, and it is indeed yet another case of "oops we made it savage teehee".

[tsuchii]

Reused but somehow made it worse, if that's even possible!