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[Rowyne]

I may have mentioned it before in this thread but this makes me seriously worried about the community. How can you want and support the game succeeding if you so vehemently oppose a standard feature in every MMO made in the past 6 years? "It's too easy" "We shouldn't hold the hand of newcomers" "I don't want it so take it out completely" are responses that reek of arrogance and elitism as opposed to the rational good natured thinking we all need to encourage this game to grow.

This is in every other competitive MMO out there, usually with color coded names instead of that distracting icon, and the average gamer expects it in their game. The average MMO player who's not playing this game is exactly who SE needs to target to expand, not just us few who are still playing after all this time. Instead, I see many grumpy players who equate tedium and outdated design with player skill and refuse to budge. If a stupid little icon that just brings the game into the last decade of MMO design provokes this much hate from the hardcore players, the dev team has an uphill fight in expanding the playerbase past "a few former ffxi players."

^ THIS right here!

The people who are complaining that an aggro indicator somehow destroys immersion and adventure and exploration must be the same people who vehemently supported the market ward system without a search function because they enjoyed spending hours looking through retainer bazaars.

Seriously? Work smarter, not harder.

Aggro indication is a standard feature of modern MMOs. What other MMOs are you playing that don't offer this? FFXI? We've already established that this ISN'T FFXI.

FFXIV needs to get with the times, and an aggro indicator is a step in the right direction.

[Shika]

Aggro indication is a standard feature of modern MMOs. What other MMOs are you playing that don't offer this? FFXI? We've already established that this ISN'T FFXI.

Playing Devil's advocate... the people that don't necessarily like or want the aggro indicator could also argue that FFXIV isn't other MMOs. Just saying.