Quote Originally Posted by ItMe View Post
OP's post wasn't just about difficulty. They mentioned lore a number of times and their TLDR at the end even focused on it.
Yeah, there’s nothing wrong with difficult content but TC is essentially saying put lore and story behind hard content, as they did with Bahamut Arc.

Wow used to do this, they’d sell people the game with videos of illidan stormrage shouting at them, only for them to find that to actually even meet him they’d have to basically do a part time jobs worth of raiding.

It’s just not a great business model and that was a game that was much more raid focused than FFXIV. Most players do not raid beyond raid roulette/Eden’s and most are doing that for the glamour/tomestones as opposed to particularly enjoying raiding.