I'm gonna start by getting straight to the point. If you were to start Bojzan Southern Front now, you would be unable to clear it under normal conditions. A player CAN reach rank 15, they CAN complete their resistance weapon, however the final story mission, and anything requiring coins can not be obtained/completed because no one does Castrum anymore.
I'm not blaming players, because players will always do what is "easiest" at the expense of everything else, regardless of tedium. I am, rather, blaming the XIV team. We saw this same thing happen with Eureka. We knew that when they chose to continue this idea of group based instances like Eureka that the same issue would occur again.
It would be easy to say "they never should of allowed coin drops from fates" but that's not a better alternative. Rather, they need to alter the content so that others can catch up without having to hop on a discord or beg their free companies for help.
While I hate back seat game deving, I would like to see the team separate the story completion (and by proxy, the unlocking of Bojzan coins in fates) from the Castrum Event since I can't imagine them coming up with a better incentive for people to actually DO the event, nor can I imagine them spending time redoing the entire instance to be faster/easier/whatever.
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I'm not blaming players, because players will always do what is "easiest" at the expense of everything else, regardless of tedium. I am, rather, blaming the XIV team. We saw this same thing happen with Eureka. We knew that when they chose to continue this idea of group based instances like Eureka that the same issue would occur again.
It would be easy to say "they never should of allowed coin drops from fates" but that's not a better alternative. Rather, they need to alter the content so that others can catch up without having to hop on a discord or beg their free companies for help.
While I hate back seat game deving, I would like to see the team separate the story completion (and by proxy, the unlocking of Bojzan coins in fates) from the Castrum Event since I can't imagine them coming up with a better incentive for people to actually DO the event, nor can I imagine them spending time redoing the entire instance to be faster/easier/whatever.
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