Considering hanging up my shield due to high level haters.....

[Welsper59]

Because no one want to wipe for hours upon hours when they already know the entire fight just so someone can take their time to learn it. The design is bad because there's many unforgiving mechanics and rotations.

In all honesty, the over dramatic thought of wiping for "hours" is part of the problem. Think about it for a bit. If the player can't figure out the mechanics of a generic dungeon fight after a few wipes (which isn't anywhere near a single hour), even with the help of party members, chances are a video would not have helped prevent the multiple wipes/deaths. It would have lessened it... maybe... but the initial outcome would likely be the same. For a quick learner, the video may have prevented a wipe/death... or maybe just reduced it to once, but is it really that big of a deal to lose out on a few minutes? Clearly, a number of our peers think a few seconds of their time is equivalent in importance to finding cures for diseases, but we generally look at them like we would an obnoxious adult. Acknowledge they exist and don't expect anything meaningful from them for their entire life.

[Doo]

In all honesty, the over dramatic thought of wiping for "hours" is part of the problem. Think about it for a bit. If the player can't figure out the mechanics of a generic dungeon fight after a few wipes (which isn't anywhere near a single hour), even with the help of party members, chances are a video would not have helped prevent the multiple wipes/deaths.

Are we talking about easy straight forward dungeons or real end game?

[LadyVaJedi]

April don't give these fool your power. It's not you it's them.

[Umo]

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Marry me. Please. Pretty please.

[Mogi]

And this is why we have so few tanks around :P it's a game ppl need to relax if you die in game your real life will still go on. And if your running with random players never expect a perfect run {maybe in a perfect world things work this way} but in any game you will run into bad or ok players. If your looking for a perfect run well that's what party finder is for.

[Vallug]

And this is why we have so few tanks around :P it's a game ppl need to relax if you die in game your real life will still go on. And if your running with random players never expect a perfect run {maybe in a perfect world things work this way} but in any game you will run into bad or ok players. If your looking for a perfect run well that's what party finder is for.

But Perfect World is a terrible game D: (lul)

[Mogi]

Loll Vallug i was talking about our real world. Yes a PW is a sack of trash and one of the dumbest games iv played in a long time :P

[Vallug]

Loll Vallug i was talking about our real world. Yes a PW is a sack of trash and one of the dumbest games iv played in a long time :P

I know but I could not resist that joke you laid out for me

[Malakhim]

Well I would hope nobody stopped playing just because there were a bunch of asshats running around. With popularity comes all kinds of players unfortunately, and FFXIV for better and worse has over 2 million players.

honestly, I can't stand the thought of having to watch videos for any bit of content of the game, as it takes me out of the game, which no game developer should ever let happen IMO. What I'm saying though is that it's a two-way street. I also want to play the game my way, but I know at some point I'm going to have to relent in some way, because we are playing a massively multiplayer game.

Anyway, yes, I got off point responding to a point someone else made.

[Avarghaladion]

honestly, I can't stand the thought of having to watch videos for any bit of content of the game, as it takes me out of the game, which no game developer should ever let happen IMO.

I know this is a tad offtopic but even though I don't have a massive problem with it per se it does annoy me that this is the fruit of mechanics heavy combat systems. It's a bit of an immersion killer, as you said. In all my time in FFXI I don't think I ever watched a single video in order to learn a fight. At most, as a healer, I'd check the mob on FFXIclopedia to see what moves I'd need to heal against but that felt like a sort of positive research where videos are like "the game mechanics are designed such that there's only one way to actually do this... no let me hold your hand through the whole experience."