Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

[Kuwagami]

I recognize your posts by your signature gif and I believe someone needs to tell you this: you seem to have some pent up frustration with MMOs.

Not really. I have some pent up frustration with MMOs' population.

One of the major good point about MMO is that you can socialize, meet friendly strangers who will help you or who you can help, eventually you may become friends of just happen to play together.


Instead of that, people are insulting each other for "not being good", noone has time to help people, let alone socialize.
As they say it themselves, most people don't even have the time to play or just have basic courtesy : "please speed run", "you're wasting my time", "stop sucking so hard", "how hard is it to dodge such an easy thing"... and so on.

There was a time when high-end player = player dedicated and who has a lot of experience and knowledge to share.
Now, it has become new player = hindrance.

The whole concept of MMOs in defeated the moment you decide to throw away people because they are not corresponding to your criteria. A 8-men play is not a MMO (for those who only play in static). A game with only people bringing their A-game isn't a MMO either.

concrete example : someone who would be scornful against anyone not yet at T6 would turn their back at 95% of the player base. Why ? If you want to succeed 100% of the time, play a solo game. If you do not want to meet people from different horizons, with different expectations and levels, why do you even play a MMO ? Is that so hard to accept that people less skilled/dedicated than you exist and play too ? Apparently it is.


http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-our-community

this thread expresses it better than I do.

If it's the norm nowadays, MMOs won't last long. The genre may stay, but every single MMO developping a community where everyone is turning their back to everyone else is doomed, because they aren't MMOs anymore. You can have as many 8-men group as you want in a game, if they never mix and play with other people, it's not a MMO.


PS :

The thing is, most of the game is casual paradise. Name anything that isn't Coil 2 and it's casual.

Titan Ex ? Oh right, "easy". Many people could disagree, but meh, their point has no value since it's not yours.
Also T5. But again, no value because 5-6% of the player base having it cleared is casual enough ?

Do not take me wrong on this PS, but no, Coil2 is not the only non-casual content.