Broadened Difficulty Settings For All Dungeons?

[Engineer]

As a midcore player, I disagree.

Not all content should be doable by everyone. Everyone already has equal accessibility, it's just a matter of how much time you can invest. (Casual, Midcore, Hardcore)

Casual players should not be able to do Hardcore content because a Hardcore player is putting more time and effort into their playing.

A lot of casual players just don't have time to invest in these instance dungeons. With difficulty settings they can just enjoy the content and have fun while getting xp. Of course they wouldn't get the high end drops, they would have to re challenge these contents at a higher level.

Mid and High level players would just have more of an option and variety for leveling. Content won't be outdated, you can enjoy them again for xp, fun, challenge, farm, grind etc.

I think its a great addition for eveyone. I do understand not eveyone would utilize this option, but a lot would if it was in the game.

I don't recall the exact words but yoshida said mmo games should be like an amusement park , and it should have things for everyone to do.

Casual and harcore players would go into the park with different motives. Casuals would play for fun, to have fun, while hardcore would try to beat everyones score and win the biggest teddybear to have bragging rights. The beauty of this amusement park saying, is that everyone is enjoying the same content, just in different ways, and for different things.

[Answa]

A lot of casual players just don't have time to invest in these instance dungeons. With difficulty settings they can just enjoy the content and have fun while getting xp. Of course they wouldn't get the high end drops, they would have to re challenge these contents at a higher level.

Mid and High level players would just have more of an option and variety for leveling. Content won't be outdated, you can enjoy them again for xp, fun, challenge, farm, grind etc.

I think its a great addition for eveyone. I do understand not eveyone would utilize this option, but a lot would if it was in the game.

I don't recall the exact words but yoshida said mmo games should be like an amusement park , and it should have things for everyone to do.

Casual and harcore players would go into the park with different motives. Casuals would play for fun, to have fun, while hardcore would try to beat everyones score and win the biggest teddybear to have bragging rights. The beauty of this amusement park saying, is that everyone is enjoying the same content, just in different ways, and for different things.

They're instanced. You do them at your own time. I see the benefit of trying to beat something together in several tries and get drops as you do it, as opposed to running it once in easy mode and getting nothing.

The thrill of the hunt is supposed to be the enjoyment part and has nothing to do with seggregating us between hardcore or casual players.

[Engineer]

They're instanced. You do them at your own time. I see the benefit of trying to beat something together in several tries and get drops as you do it, as opposed to running it once in easy mode and getting nothing.

The thrill of the hunt is supposed to be the enjoyment part and has nothing to do with seggregating us between hardcore or casual players.

All the suggestion is , is making all instanced dungeon content available to different level ranges, so players can enjoy all dungeon content when, and how they want to. They can enjoy it regardless if its for fun, xp, challenge, loot, bragging rights wtc. Whatever.

[Alerith]

I don't recall the exact words but yoshida said mmo games should be like an amusement park , and it should have things for everyone to do.

Casual and harcore players would go into the park with different motives. Casuals would play for fun, to have fun, while hardcore would try to beat everyones score and win the biggest teddybear to have bragging rights. The beauty of this amusement park saying, is that everyone is enjoying the same content, just in different ways, and for different things.

Close.

Keeping in with the amusement park example:

Some rides have height requirements.
Some rides have age requirements.
Some games require more skill than others.

By that example, the current model works just fine, as there is something for everyone, but not everything is for everyone, which is as it should be.

A kid who is too short to ride the Top Thrill Dragster (A casual who can't fight the real Ifrit) shouldn't complain that they need to make an identical ride scaled to their height. (As a casual player shouldn't expect an endgame fight to be scaled to them.)

Casual players shouldn't be able to do the content, at all, if they can't put the time in to do it at it's appropriate level and difficulty. There is still plenty of other things for Casuals to do because, as we agree, it's an amusement park.