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Mollie Taylor

'We made it too difficult for players to even get into the raid in the first place': Final Fantasy 14 director admits its latest dungeon was 'a misstep in development'

Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail Occult Crescent questline.

I've said it before, but I actually really like Forked Tower; Final Fantasy 14's latest 48-player dungeon that came bundled with field operation mode Occult Crescent. What I don't like, however, is all of the needless ground work it comes with.

From having to try and shepherd several eight-player groups into a single instance, to waiting around for a specific weather condition, and then praying that curious passersby wouldn't unwittingly leave a member of your static in the lurch with the dungeon's entry lottery… yeah, it's been a lot of artificial inflation to the difficulty for parts of the process that should be relatively frictionless.

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