The Novus Grind

[Iriadysa]

It really shows what kind of people play this game when we hear complains all the time about:

- Content is too hard, I can't be carried if I die!
- Content requires super human reaction times and >10ms latency to beat!
- Content is not telling me it's going to be hard, why isn't there a warning?!

I honestly wonder if these are the majority or they are simply very vocal. I can imagine how hard this must be for Yoshida and Co.

A game like XIV really needs a relatively high playerbase to keep up with the content production rate it needs, so obviously it's important to listen to the majority of your players and make sure you keep the happy enough to stay while hopefully catering to other players as well. Thus, if the majority of players is like the ones we find in the forums -players incapable of tackling any content that requires reaction times of less than ~400ms, that dislike surprise challenges and for whom dying with consequences is a personal offense-, I can only assume Yoshida will be forced to cater to them.

I suspect we are already seeing steps in this by making the primal trio no longer a roadblock to easy Leviathan weapons. We'll probably have our answer by 2.4.

[Alukah]

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You might like the "I died - lose progress for the day" thing, but not everyone wants to take months to upgrade a weapon, this game has enough time sinks as it is.

Not everyone enjoys having their time wasted, at least have the decency to respect that.

Whenever I read responses to thread like this all I see is people belittling others for not enjoying the same things they enjoy, very often taking things to the extremes (not everyone asking "make it easier" mean "make it a faceroll")

[Alberel]

You might like the "I died - lose progress for the day" thing, but not everyone wants to take months to upgrade a weapon, this game has enough time sinks as it is.

Not everyone enjoys having their time wasted, at least have the decency to respect that.

Whenever I read responses to thread like this all I see is people belittling others for not enjoying the same things they enjoy, very often taking things to the extremes (not everyone asking "make it easier" mean "make it a faceroll")

Thing is your time is only being wasted because you seem to refuse to take other players with you to do the map. Like I said in my previous post they are indicated as soloable because they ARE soloable, they're just difficult. If you cannot solo them then take friends and you will never waste a map again. There is nothing for SE to change or fix here.

[Iriadysa]

You might like the "I died - lose progress for the day" thing, but not everyone wants to take months to upgrade a weapon, this game has enough time sinks as it is.

Not everyone enjoys having their time wasted, at least have the decency to respect that.

Whenever I read responses to thread like this all I see is people belittling others for not enjoying the same things they enjoy, very often taking things to the extremes (not everyone asking "make it easier" mean "make it a faceroll")

Oh no, I dislike losing my progress. However, you have to understand that the sole reason you waste your progress is because you tackled the challenge at the hardest setting possible: alone. You can make things easier for yourself by bringing a second person, at which point any of the map monsters becomes a bore fest. (Side note: I'm not doing Novus because I cannot stomach the atma grind, but I've done all the maps helping a friend numerous times).

In other words, you are the one wasting your time by choosing a path you cannot tackle. And after doing that, you complain about it.