Patch 2.2, Accessibility, Difficulty Levels, and Throwing Away Content

[Tazo]

There are people out there that are 'gamers' and play 50+ hrs a week...shocking I know

The point Xatsh is making is very valid. SE released a game where you can get 1-50 in less than a week, crafting jobs in 1-2 days. If their design allows you to lvl so fast and reach endgame then they better have the content at the end of that road to keep these players interested.

[MasamuneBranford]

Solution: Give the ability to play all content under its original conditions and reward an achievement for doing so.

Therefore -5 years from now - If i'm bored, I could gather my friends and enter the original turns 1-5 of BCB and be given the option to remove all echo buffs and be item level capped at ilevel 91.

Such an easy solution to implement that would literally please everybody.

[MasamuneBranford]

Solution: Give the ability to play all content under its original conditions and reward an achievement for doing so.

Therefore -5 years from now - If i'm bored, I could gather my friends and enter the original turns 1-5 of BCB and be given the option to remove all echo buffs and be item level capped at ilevel 91.

Such an easy solution to implement that would literally please everybody.

So ummm, nobody liked my idea? Got zero comments and I feel that it truly would please everyone. It basically would allow you to have a time capsule to replay all the historic battles throughout the life of the MMO.

[MasamuneBranford]

There are people out there that are 'gamers' and play 50+ hrs a week...shocking I know

The point Xatsh is making is very valid. SE released a game where you can get 1-50 in less than a week, crafting jobs in 1-2 days. If their design allows you to lvl so fast and reach endgame then they better have the content at the end of that road to keep these players interested.

Good points. However, I don't feel that it is in SE's best interest to rush out content to cater to the 5 or less% minority who plays an MMO more hours per week than the average work week.

[Tazo]

Good points. However, I don't feel that it is in SE's best interest to rush out content to cater to the 5 or less% minority who plays an MMO more hours per week than the average work week.

The sad thing is that they didn't rush 2.1(delayed actually) and it's nothing but recycled content and shit that should have been there on release.

[Swishytail]

There are people out there that are 'gamers' and play 50+ hrs a week...shocking I know

The point Xatsh is making is very valid. SE released a game where you can get 1-50 in less than a week, crafting jobs in 1-2 days. If their design allows you to lvl so fast and reach endgame then they better have the content at the end of that road to keep these players interested.

That's the norm now, and it will stay that way until the majority wants otherwise.
Don't get too excited for things like Wildstar, ESO, etc. There's a good chance you'll
be max level extremely fast in those as well. Same thing will happen end-game.

Not saying you mentioned those MMOs personally, those are generally speaking. The
amount of people that play 10 hours a week compared to 50 hours a week is probably
a very huge gap.

I'm enjoying FFXIV. I plan on staying for the long-haul unless they REALLY flub things up
in a real bad way. Just my two cents.

[ApolloGenX]

There are people out there that are 'gamers' and play 50+ hrs a week...shocking I know

The point Xatsh is making is very valid. SE released a game where you can get 1-50 in less than a week, crafting jobs in 1-2 days. If their design allows you to lvl so fast and reach endgame then they better have the content at the end of that road to keep these players interested.

That isn't SEs target audience. Yoshi has repeatedly made comments that they are targeting more casual players. So, no there is no need for them to design for that kind of player.

-That said, currently there is not content to satisfy CASUAL players, imo. I leveled slowly... have leveled a couple of jobs to 50... and still there is very little to do endgame. So, while I disagree that SE needs to bother worrying about those that devour content faster than it can be created- they DO need to work on creating enough content for their target audience.... which they haven't done, imo.