Game too complex or easy?

[SkizzleofRagnarok]

The game is too easy. Due to continous handouts from Yoshi P and this whole mentality of punishing you for dedicating time while praising someone who doesnt have time or just wants to slack I stopped caring. I'm now a slacker because of Yoshi Ps way of enforcing this western world MMORPG mindstate. I came to FFXIV for the mentality of a japanese MMORPG not this easy western world vertical progression. I'm still playing this mostly for the community and my FFXI friends since we have no new MMORPG to play together so we are on FFXIV. I personally think the hype of this game will slowly fade away since Yoshi Ps business aspect of this is to steal as many members from Blizzards market as possible. This game is WoW with a FF costume on. People love to judge so fast assuming that just because you have savage Yoshi P did you a favour. Levling too fast does not make you a good player.

[Melch]

Levling too fast does not make you a good player.

You don't get good by leveling, so leveling faster or slower is irrelevant in both case. I'd rather level fast so I can learn how to play sooner. There's a lot more requirements to become a good player.

[LunaHoshino]

The game is too easy.

Says someone who has never even touched Final Coil, the 2 new EX Primals, or Alexander Normal.

[Gardes]

Says someone who has never even touched Final Coil, the 2 new EX Primals, or Alexander Normal.

Would it make a difference if I have done all of the above and said the same thing? Currently the game outside SA is easy and SA is the worst kind of hard (seems to be just damage pump) and middle ground doesn't exist.

2. The level of difficulty of savage mode is actually too low (mechanics wise) and closer to what FCoB was and nowhere near what SCoB savage was. For this reason it doesn't deserve to be called 'savage'.

I've been to almost enrage in SA1, which means I've seen all the 'mechanics' and honestly, I feel like T10 is way more complex than SA1. SA1 doesnt seem to be any more complicated than fractal's last boss which seemed daunting when the battle starts for the first time (because you just tackled library) but after your first win it was basically "Wait, wasn't that just tank and spank, dodge stuff and kill adds?". Huge let down compared to that hunk of rock/book thing in library.

[LunaHoshino]

Would it make a difference if I have done all of the above and said the same thing? Currently the game outside SA is easy and SA is the worst kind of hard (seems to be just damage pump) and middle ground doesn't exist.

Oh, I agree that the vast majority of content in this game is too easy and that there isn't much of a middle ground. I just take issue with people claiming the game is too easy when they haven't even tried a large portion of what is supposed to be the most difficult content in the game. If you have done it and think that it's too easy, well, I agree with that.

[Ayuhra]

Says someone who has never even touched Final Coil, the 2 new EX Primals, or Alexander Normal.

To be fair Alex really isn't so bad once people know the dance. Savage now, I hear that bloody place is the Finger of Rhalgr.

[Jatoi]

In my opinion, the game can be difficult or easy depending on the people you group with as well. Some people are more mindful of their surroundings than others.

It'd be foolish to forget the human element.