Quote Originally Posted by Almalexia View Post
I was going to say, CoP went through the same adjustments we're seeing now. But with CoP, the difficulty was reduced after many complaints and after many months--some adjustments were many years--following CoP's release. In the case of FFXIV, difficulty reduction was planned from the start.
Well I would say that SE waited too long to adjust things FFXI, and when they did it was either too little too late, or completely ham-handed.

So I'm glad they are easing XIV content in a timely and thought out manner.