Quote Originally Posted by FizzleofHyperion View Post
I rather play with 1-2m loyal FF customers that love SE Yoshi P and their brand then be mixed with 2m more who have the wow gaming mentality.
Would you also rather play with a third to half the budget? Because that's what a third to half the playerbase, and therefore subscriptions, will eventually average out to (+/- mogstore purchases)...

1. Heavensward is objectively less imbalanced now than ARR was at release. Don't even bother with that. At best, ARR's imbalances were simply more veiled as parsers were still figuring out how to account for DoT damage.

2. And what, exactly would horizontal progression solve? You keep using that word, but do you know what it would actually means in the context of this game? How would it reduce "slacker" tendencies if, say, rather than having catch-up gear after the point that gear would be relevant for new content, you simply have no real upgrades for the next year?

3. There is no "WoW gaming mentality", nor is there any reason to stick a corporate face of evil onto anything you don't care for. There are simply various player "types", if you will, that WoW has been better able to gather, and sometimes retain. Fun fact: its member types best retained even as others drop off after every expansion or upon completion of patch content is allegedly the 'social RPers' and 'lore-ists'. But I guessing those aren't part of your imagined WoW gaming mentality.

5. Dependence on others does not necessarily equate to challenging content. Just what two anecdotal parts of the XI and WoW communities are you comparing when you call one mature? Because I doubt an hyperactive, smug, or condescending teen looks much different in one's Guild compared to the other's LS. At best, he simply feels more constrained not to make enemies when he's less able to solo, not more mature in itself.

6. You might want to proofread and edit this part — I apologize if you already have:
Lets just be honest EVERYTHING and I leget mean EVERYTHING aside from Savage and current Extreme primal is considered very hard/Expert.

The rest of the content* is on a very easy difficulty level these are facts its not even a casual thing cause I've seen the socalled casual community on 5 different servers where I have level 60 characters on feel that there is nothing to do and the game gets boring.
* The rest of the content would at that point just be... Savage and Ex primals. I think I get what you mean, but you've already got an edit marker there, so what's to lose?

Also, if you have 5 different 60 characters... why not post on one of them? It's not like you'd necessarily be giving away the identity of your "main" at that point?