Quote Originally Posted by bswpayton View Post
Then we would really have dry spells of people not logging in. You have to be honest that more players take part in the easier content in the game so that's y things are the way they are.
As has been said possibly a hundred times over. There exists a middle ground between brain dead content like current dungeons and Savage. In fact, I often find Stone Vigil or Brayflox normal harder than Xelphatol. Those are baby leveling dungeons yet they push you harder than the supposed Expert ones. Not to mention, it isn't like inexperienced would have nothing to do. Expert too hard for you at the moment? Do the tier below until you have better tier. Most games follow a set pattern of encouraging players to improve their gear or character levels. That boss too hard in Dragon Age: Inquisition? Maybe I need to respec my abilities since I may have missed something; maybe I just need better gear. With FFXIV, gear is almost made irrelevant unless you do savage. Why bother with Shire when Lore gear will still clear everything, up to and including Sophia EX?

I theorize a lot of people are bad at this game because it does a horrendous job incentivizing any sort of self improvement. Your hand is held for most of it until extreme primals and savage come along and absolutely murder you because their difficulty is scaled so much higher than everything else.