Well, they actually did it, the absolute madmen

[Blokeymon]

OP here.

Does anyone else remember the 2.0 days?

Getting to Brayflox and it being a literal weeding-out duty, where you either improved or didn't progress.

Remember Titan and Garuda, where you were either competent or stuck?

Back then, you had no choice but to be at least competent. You had to read your tooltips and understand your job. If you're a UK/EU player like me, you'll remember the HORRIBLE latency we had too.

And yet, we did it.

And we continued to do it.

And then Steps Of Faith arrived.

And all of a sudden, people couldn't do mechanics, didn't know how to do their jobs, and cried that they couldn't clear it.

I managed to pug it on day 2, and I'm an absolutely terrible player, who more often than not healed using Cleric Stance AND played on PS3.

But enough people cried, and instead of saying "well, all these people have cleared it, maybe the issue isn't the duty?" they nerfed it.

And people STILL can't clear it today.

Same with Chrysalis, IIRC. I was in a party this week that had no first timers who STILL didn't make the DPS check, nor soaked meteors properly.

There has been an ever increasing number of bad players running alongside numerous nerfs to battles, which does nothing to increase the skill level, and everything to lower it.

And then we end up in Shinryu Normal, and people still can't clear it.

And then we end up in Hades, and people can't clear it.

There is an obvious problem here, and the solution is NOT making it easier/faster to get thru duties, whether solo or party.

The solution is to encourage players to be better.

Also, speaking of disabilities, here's a video of a kid playing with his feet, at a level most current players can only dream of. Don't use disabilities as an excuse.

https://youtu.be/ogCRNvghbiw