Damund Dynamis based event

[Alhanelem]

tldr, dynamisis = good, open server dynamsis = bad, haters of dynamisis = die ..long live ffxi pre abysea and mmo's not full of whinny bishes.

tl;dr, dynamis = bad, anyone who thought it was a well designed event = bad, long live anything not dynamis.

Dynamis was
1) too long, 3.5~4hours is a lengthy amount of time to demand someone stay glued to their TV without interruption. Long content does not automatically mean good content
2) predictable, making it essentially a 3-4 hour BCNM fight that can be perfected and conquered, with none of the story or flavor of a real raid dungeon- Dynamis' plot was extremely shallow and only told in a couple of brief cutscenes. The rest is just a bunch of killing beastmen.
3) Sucky re-entry time. People should be able to play content for the most part whenever they have the able people to do so. Once a day is the longest delay any kind of event should have.
4) Boring (outside of charmgas) after the first few times you did each zone, but most of us played it as often as we were allowed for years and years because it had (at the time) stuff that was useful to everyone

Dynamis had its place in history- Early on it was a challenge and didn't have quite the same predictability as you'd bring in 30-40 or more people and still wipe; but towards the end og the original dynamis days people won it with less than a full alliance with minimal effort, yet we STILL had little alternative to the event- In most other MMOs, when you wear the content out there is usually something else to do- in FFXI, dynamis was basically THE endgame event for quite a few years.

Raids are the new dynamis. If we can minimize the speedrunning component (specifically encouraging people to speedrun for more rewards, that is) and have engaging, detailed events that can fill a 1-2 hour block of time (the current raids don't do that), that will be content I really want to play.

[Venat]

Created 3rd version of the area.

[Nuru]

I wouldn't send that much time in content like this, if it were shorter and if the reward was worth it, then maybe. >3>

Edit: Dalamud would be proud. *w*

[schism]

I like this idea alot but thats because I had a great LS and we all knew we would get our gear we needed. I love old school ffxi but most ppl that play ffxiv want easy content, what they really need to do is make the rewards that much better for ppl who do want to have things like 2-3 hr events, land gods, NM's that you actually have to camp for and have a ToD on, nobody wants anything competitive anymore its actually kinda sad. Thats ok pvp sounds like it might be fun.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

I'm ok with long events but...dynamis ? Really ?

[vax]

A dynamis version of FFXIV would be awesome.

[schism]

If you only have 30 minutes to play then you might want to look into a different game, just sayin... I havn't played a single mmo that I could log in instantly and just expect to do something right that second and for 30 minutes hahaha. No thanks to that, you should pick up a crap console game like the rest of the sheep.

[strallaalaa]

If you only have 30 minutes to play then you might want to look into a different game, just sayin... I havn't played a single mmo that I could log in instantly and just expect to do something right that second and for 30 minutes hahaha. No thanks to that, you should pick up a crap console game like the rest of the sheep.

<<this ...yeah lets change everything about what made mmo's ...mmo's just so you can't have too much to do. gamefly monthly is 22bucks for 2 games out. you'll never run out of games to play at 30mins a day. have fun.

sad thing is ...casual people are the numbers and devs love that they don't even have to do as much work building a mmo anymore. so more money, less work. how can they lose. game sucks so what, game does bad ..meh they made money either way.

truthfully ffxiv is my last mmo. if it doesn't pump out at least 25+ man events and creates a mmo where i don't feel i need to log out after a few hours then i'm done with all mmo's and any offline games of those companies. just a fact. i been threw enough mmo's since ffxi to know that i will never enjoy any of these casual created mmos. i want what ffxi had or i don't want to play mmo's. they should def change the name of mmorpg to ...fbgfah(facebookgamingforassholes) but anyway. /end rant.