Game dumbed Down a little to much

Does anyone else feel Yoshi P dumbed this game down too much? The battle system gets very boring after playing it for a little bit and look at FATES they are just face rolling Zergs. The only partying to do in the game is the instances and that is another flaw in the game 90 percent of the game is instances add some damn world content and don't make the world content SOLO.

Yoshida said 1 through 50 is a guide for end game so he made it easier especially since his target audience were gamers that were new to MMOs. So not many of them were experience. And also a majority of players in Japan are console players as well and they didn't want to discriminate against PS3 players.

This is all facts and data from his live letters and such. You're probably an experience MMO players so it might get you down a bit but end game is pretty tough and will give you a run for your gil. And the game barely came out so more content will be added for all kinds of player, casual to hardcore.

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Originally Posted by NoctisCaelus

Yoshida said 1 through 50 is a guide for end game so he made it easier especially since his target audience were gamers that were new to MMOs. So not many of them were experience. And also a majority of players in Japan are console players as well and they didn't want to discriminate against PS3 players.

This is all facts and data from his live letters and such. You're probably an experience MMO players so it might get you down a bit but end game is pretty tough and will give you a run for your gil. And the game barely came out so more content will be added for all kinds of player, casual to hardcore.

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1-50 should never be excusable as a tutorial. I understand this game is catering to non MMO players because they need money, but the issue becomes that by level 50 people still don't know how to play properly when the difficulty spikes (not to mention it's just boring to have such a low difficulty curve). Game is way too easy in my opinion.

Ahahaha... Keep saying that when you get to the hard mode primals. :)

As for the world content, it's meant for solo play. This isn't FFXI where they make every little bit of the game a complete tedious nightmare to complete.

The challenging group content comes once you start getting to Titan hard Mode.

With over a million players and such, you'll meet either a lot of bad players or good ones. It's not always the game's job to teach people how to play but the players responsibility too. That's what Yoshida wanted too and is striving for that teamwork atmosphere for 2.1 if you seen his last interview. He talks about his plans and such and I agree with him. I mean, I love this game a lot so when I have to, I don't mind teaching someone about certain mechanics so they can better themselves. Near end game, it becomes more of a team oriented thing and learning to work together after all and by no means easy.

Everyone has to go through the learning curve, some just learn faster than others.

They had the low level dungeon length / challenge just right in Beta-P3. Easy enough for new players but enough difficulty to push people into learning things, which is I thought the whole point of those level dungeons etc. I think they made the mistake of assuming that difficulty is frustrating so they removed a lot of it, but difficulty can also be fun and that is the element which has been stripped away in the final versions of Tam Tara, To To Rak, Hauk Mannor etc.

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Originally Posted by NoctisCaelus

Yoshida said 1 through 50 is a guide for end game so he made it easier especially since his target audience were gamers that were new to MMOs. So not many of them were experience.
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Is that why fate grinding teaching you absolutely nothing about how to play a MMO, this game, or your job? All I learned leveling WHM to 50 was that aero is effective for tagging enemies.

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Originally Posted by Veis

The challenging group content comes once you start getting to Titan hard Mode.

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If we keep the newbie mmorpg in mind, then say the challenging group content start at titan is a not wrong but not right either, it start at ifrit, but since the newbie get guide by exp in DF or the exp in their FC, ifrit and garuda become a bit easy until titan. W7o those guide, a newly group will get wipe a few time before they can get hang on ifrit and garuda.

and atm on NA/EU, garuda DF is highly chance to wipe, compare to ifrit

note: I only quote this because I agree with the first

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Originally Posted by Jre418

Does anyone else feel Yoshi P dumbed this game down too much? The battle system gets very boring after playing it for a little bit and look at FATES they are just face rolling Zergs. The only partying to do in the game is the instances and that is another flaw in the game 90 percent of the game is instances add some damn world content and don't make the world content SOLO.

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I totally agree, the game is way to easy between lvls 1-50. It's making players teribad at the game, and not learning proper etiquette in battle. The fact they made Fates which is nothing more than mindless button mashing, the best way to lvl as well, makes people shoot to lvl 50 in a few days, than do primals and dungeons, which just makes it even worse.

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Originally Posted by Ventus

1-50 should never be excusable as a tutorial. I understand this game is catering to non MMO players because they need money, but the issue becomes that by level 50 people still don't know how to play properly when the difficulty spikes (not to mention it's just boring to have such a low difficulty curve). Game is way too easy in my opinion.

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And I agree again, by lvl 50 like I said above. The game should be gradually getting more difficult between levels 1-50 not suddenly hard, then suddenly easy again. The game teaches you nothing until level 50. This has a massive flaw in the logic. By level 50 you should know what to do and how to play your class, not learning it then.

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Originally Posted by KylePearlsand

Ahahaha... Keep saying that when you get to the hard mode primals. :)

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Mute point. But I'll explain why... This thread is about levels 1-50, not End game.

Only reason Hard primals are hard, is more or less because the primals have tricky AOE's, and are hard hitters in and of themselves. This is the only reason its difficult. Apart from that, the game mechanics even for hard primals are dumbed down. Especially (forgive me) when compared to end game of FFXI back before Abysea. When you not only had to know the Bosses every tricks, but had to keep tabs on party members, their skills, your cds (which don't matter in FFXIV due to how fast they are), and countless other timers all at once.