Community Reps actually said that the brackets in the title doesn't get any more attention than a normal thread, recently.

Eh, I feel like the vision Yoshi-P has for the game is fine. I mean, I more or less want to break down what the "incentive" would be between the two types of players? The biggest thing I tend to feel from the OP is that there should be a drastic difference between the hardcore and the casual player in terms of gear or something. Is that the incentive?

I mean, I'm all for having something to show for the work in certain regards, but I also understand where Yoshi-P is coming from when he says he doesn't want that huge player gap. It seems, to me, as though he wants to bring the FFXIV community of players up together as a whole as opposed to having a huge rift between the two types of players. It's his own sort of "No players left behind" sort of deal, I'd wager.

Personally, I don't really mind any of it. I've played games before where I have tried to stand out and stand apart from lower level players, but I kind of fell out of that because I felt like it was like me holding my prize over the new guy's head like "Heh, look at this. Bet you wish you had it huh? Too bad you're not as hardcore as I am. Get yo' head right, son! You'll get there one day!" But that's all it is... bragging rights, or so I feel in any case. I tend to think that Yoshi-P is overlooking peoples' urges for that and trying to make a way for both types of player to earn their "power/gear" in a way that works best for them so that they can still play together and experience the game in a little sort of community.

I dunno, though, maybe I'm just odd. I kinda feel like people want to loom things over other people's heads just to say "I have this and you don't. Suck it." or "If you played harder, you'd have all this." Kind of feels like something a big brother would do to a younger one.