Quote Originally Posted by Ulathskullsplitter View Post
It's simple numbers. There are far more players that prefer the game to be easy so they can relax while playing, get their loot, and feel like they accomplished something. It's a very small percent of players that like to bang their heads against difficult encounters for weeks or even months before being able to beat it. Most people don't find being frustrated fun. These companies are going to follow the money.

And woe to FFXIV if it follows Wows path. Peaking at 12 million subscribers and maintaining 5+ million for almost a decade. That would just be a terrible fate for this game. Clearly nobody wants easy content.
The path FFXIV is "following" is post-Wrath, when WoW began dropping subs left and right. Even Cataclysm and Pandaria couldn't bring in players or sustain them long enough (just small blips). Now if XIV was more like Vanilla and TBC, well... that would be a different story.

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