Arthars reacts to "The Raid That Changed FFXIV History" by Rinon [Part 3] 

DO NOT USE THE PARTY FINDER FOR ULTIMATES. There’s dedicated discords for doing pick up groups for ultimates and groups that help people progress through the phases. I’m a late night player myself usually midnight to 4am and it’s much much easier to find groups through those discords. The extra barrier of using a 3rd party program to find groups also means you tend to get people who are not skilled/serious about ultimates so less of the random pf bullshit

@@deefour28 appreciate this, but I have since cleared UWU in PF and also found a static for DSR, currently working on P5 :D Plan is DSR, then TEA, then TOP (theyve already cleared it) depending on how much time we've got til Dawntrail. Extremely excited to have found a great group to do the new Ultimate on content for the first time.

Idk if you do Mentor DR but man, the casual ppl who cannot dot on bard at lvl 90 are more common than u think. 🥲 I know some fail solo duty on purpose to unlock the very easy difficulty.

From a business perspective it is generally a good idea to keep casual content more accessible and build optional hard content from there. Many MMO developers from Yoshi P, Ghostwalker of WoW fame, creator of Ultima Online, developers for GW2, ESO, and various other MMORPGs are agreed with this sentiment. Honestly the average player really really sucks at games. From marketing research it has been reported by WoW developers that "people rather quit than improve over the slight increase of difficulty." As such better to make content like extremes, savages, DR, ultimates, mythic, etc for people interested in a challenge to sink their teeth into than to exclude people at the base level. You keep your base very wide while keeping the mid core and hardcore engaged with content. This makes your boss happy to keep funding your project. EW is definitely a more maintenance patch (backend, graphical updates, duty support, dungeon reworks, revamping all the ARR duties and MSQ) with more single player or small content (V&C, Eureka Orthos). DT Fanfest is the most content they have revealed at a Fanfest even Eureka or Bozja, Ishgard Restoration, Diadem, etc were announced at live letters not at a Fanfest.

​@@SoSakashiithe very easy and easy difficulties were unlocked around EW because people kept complaining that the solo duties in MSQ were too hard. As such the dev went with the standard baseline and just slap some differences in numbers for the super casual.

@@coolyeh1017 ye I know the reason behind the existence of easy/very easy difficulty. Just wanna say that I know some purposely fail solo duty on their first try to unlock the easier modes.