Yoshida, The Creator: Savage is the worst tuning ever in an MMO

[ColorOfSakura]

Oh look, it's the exact. same. complaint. as from when Final Coil was released.

The exact complaint that led to Gordias. The exact complaint that led to the raid scene effectively being destroyed and killing half the servers on the game because the raiders all moved to Gilgamesh in order to actually accomplish anything.

I'm not saying that SE isn't partially at fault for way overtuning stuff, but come on - no one has been satisfied with raid difficulty in this game since day one. It's a nightmare.

They are NEVER going to strike a balance where everyone is going to be satisfied. EVER. It is impossible. The raids are either going to be too hard for everyone that isn't the super hardcore groups, or they're going to be too easy for the hardcore groups while being tuned fine for the midcore groups. There's no way for them to win with you people unless they make like 10 different versions each to cater to your very UND PRECISE expectation of difficulty.

[Windi]

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I'd like to argue that it is impossible to be truly precise with game difficulty in general due to its relative nature. People who are more experienced/knowledgeable about the game's working mechanics will always have an easier time dealing with this content then others.

These people are in the minority, though, and it is always a bad idea to design anything catered specifically to hardcore players due to how it excludes a massive amount of people and how very often leads to an un-immersive experience where the focus is too much on numbers and mechanics rather than the actual thrill of the content itself. In that regard, I wouldn't mind if they were all toned down in difficulty.