FilthMcNasty wrote:
The point is that you aren't locked to the same 2 days at the same 2 times in XIV as you were in dynamis. It's only more accommodating in the sense that if you didn't show up, no one would miss you. If for some reason your group didn't show up, it wasn't something you can just reschedule for any other time like you can with XIV raids.
The point I'm making here is that I can completely understand someone not being able to stick to Tuesday 3-6 PM and Friday 4-7 PM every week. Dynamis locked you into very specific times and allowed for nearly no diversion from that. XIV on the other hand allows that you enter these raids whenever you want. Yes, you do need all 7 other players to show up, but it's still no where close to the 20 players you needed to show up for dynamis.
The point I'm making here is that I can completely understand someone not being able to stick to Tuesday 3-6 PM and Friday 4-7 PM every week. Dynamis locked you into very specific times and allowed for nearly no diversion from that. XIV on the other hand allows that you enter these raids whenever you want. Yes, you do need all 7 other players to show up, but it's still no where close to the 20 players you needed to show up for dynamis.
Requiring 8 players to show up for a raid is more difficult than getting 20 to show up for dynamis when the 8 is a 100% attendance rate and the 20 is not.
Take 25% of the players who can't make it on a given day from an 8 man FF14 raid group and that group has to either try their luck picking up players or they just don't run the content that day. Take 25% of the players from a 25 man dynamis shell and you're still good to go. This is exactly how it worked for me in practice. I rarely saw absolutely 100% attendance in dynamis but it worked out because you did not need every single player to show up. On the other hand, I've had several times when I just didn't end up raiding in FF14 because one or two members had something they needed to do and just couldn't make it that night.
It's also not always as easy as "oh well, just go another night." Depending on our schedules my group at times would have only one day a week to raid because it really was the only day that every single person could guarantee they could be on at the same time. For someone with heavy real life obligations, they might be able to make Thursday night 3 out of 4 times each month on average but they don't necessarily know which night they're not going to be able to make. When you have multiple people like this, and player 1 happens to not be able to make it the first week, then player 2 and 3 can't make it the second week, player 5 has something to do the third week, etc. it becomes nearly impossible to keep up. Take all of these players and put them in a 20-30 man content and every single one of them can and will attend when they can. There will be events that they all miss, sure, but they won't all be out of luck or forced to try their luck with randoms every time one single member can't make it.
Edited, Nov 9th 2015 6:00pm by Susanoh