AF+1 Costs WAY Too Much

[Furious]

In the FF14 ARR Beta forums, players went on for months complaining that the game was too easy and the MMO spirit of grinding had been lost; with hundreds of similar threads in different forms...

After FF14 ARR had been launched, we see a growing number of threads on why the game is too hard, difficult and grind intensive

sheesh damned if you do, damned if you don't

Firstly, the FF14 ARR Beta forums had a much higher percentage of people who played 1.0, a game which almost broke the series. Their opinions are clearly different to the majority, who jumped a sinking ship much earlier in the process. If you want to fix a broken game, don't ask for the feedback of people who think it's not broken in the first place. Furthermore, endgame content had limited to no testing in beta, and a pretty heavy NDA.

Secondly, people are again confusing hard with boring. Making people spend 100 times longer doing something doesn't make it harder in the sense that is important. Being grindy is nothing to do with being hard.