Lack of End Game Content

[LadyKairi]

Casuals didn't change the game,

factually wrong. I've been playing since ARR and, yes, casuals did change the game. I remember when extreme primals were actually difficult. People still have nightmares of Titan extreme. We didn't always have story modes for high end raids. Shoot they even lowered the difficulty of savage raids for casual players (Creator), because they were "too hard". How about the hard mode dungeons that were nerfed because they were "too hard". The Steps of faith faced the nerf hammer, even though it was still clearable in its original form. Devs trying to bring the skill ceiling down rather than raising the skill floor. My boyfriend would even bring up when strength tank was around. People complained because you had people who didnt know how to play their jobs trying to copy those who would build strength rather than vitality and the bad tanks were harder to heal. So lets just get rid of the ability to do it (I was never a tank person so this is just his gripe and why he refuses to play XIV anymore).

I remember things being more difficult than they are now. It is what got me to make xiv my home. While I still love the game and aspects of it that aren't raid related, it's become something I don't quite recognize. Mostly everything has become so face roll its depressing. And then the content that I do enjoy because it gives me a challenge... Savage saw a lowering in difficulty to entice casuals, and then you have people crying for even ultimate to be nerfed or be unsynced so they don't have to actually work to get the rewards. I am shocked they are (so far) letting Ultimate be left alone. You are lying to yourself if you think the casuals didn't change this game. I remember, and others remember.

We are not asking for the whole game to be changed into this raid centered thing. We just want a slight addition to our already tiny piece of pie. And you are delusional if you think people who are screaming "NO! YOU CANT HAVE MORE. ITS ALL MINE" When we are starving for something more while they're drowning in more content than they know what to do with (and freaking brag about it) aren't selfish. It is unbelievably selfish. My parents taught me that "sharing is caring", and I have not cared if I've had to give in order for someone unfortunate to have something. If the roles were reversed, I would totally let casuals have their content, as more people being happy makes more money for SE, and in turn more funds going back into the game. This is supposed to be a "theme park MMO", but why should it be called that when groups like the raiders have so little. We cant even enjoy our content, because now casuals have gotten the difficulty of even savage reduced for them. This is why people are done with the tiers so fast. Why they don't last as long as they should. Why we are begging for scraps at this point.

The game doesn't need to be catered to casuals or accessible by everyone in every aspect of the game. That's the whole thing about theme park mmos. Something for everyone, yet casuals seem to get their hand on everything and get it altered to their liking, rather than let groups enjoy their content. Then when people like us beg for something more, we get screamed at and told to screw off. Make us feel like we are not welcome at all, and how DARE we criticize their perfect game, even though things were different than they are now. Most of us sat quietly as the game grew progressively easier and easier.


No I don't want to take more time away from the game. I hardly get play time as it stands. No I don't want to play other games. My FC is here. My friends are here. I'm an officer in my little community, and I can't just abandon them when they're in need. I have roots here established a long time ago. And I just can't afford to buy different games even if I wanted to. No, raids aren't the only content I do in game. They are just the content I love the most and tend to spend my limited time doing, as I have exhausted most content while everything was relevant and while I had the time to blow. Now I'm either helping FC members or doing raids (or slowly trying to level dancer while waiting for savage).

I'm really not trying to sound angry or spiteful or negative, but it is just so frustrating. We have put up with the game getting progressively easier as time went by, because we acknowledged that we are the minority and it would better the game as a whole in order to grow. And then to politely as for something ever so small after all these years only to get told "get out my game" essentially... I just can't with the selfishness you guys. How is that even remotely fair?

And just because the game grew as much as it has and is still successful, does not mean it couldn't stand to improve in different ways.