"Play XIV if(cont)" and"you have a responsibility to" are not statements that coexist

[EirolOcarrol]

Sounds like elitist gatekeeping to me to be honest

Hard to beat the elitism of "don't play the game, you "s**k"".

And the offline games are very story and exploration focused(well, XIII isn't exploration focused at all). There are entire video series dedicated to how overpowered you can get early in the game. In Final Fantasy VII, it's easy to get to a point where you can blow past even Ruby Weapon without any effort via lucky sevens. And in Final Fantasy VIII, all you need to do is grind cards and AP. The rest of the game practically plays itself if you get the right cards and GF abilities early on.

And in offline Final Fantasy games, there's no one there to tell you that you should stop playing the game because you're not good enough. I can't imagine that Final Fantasy IV would have been so much fun to people saying "git gud" or worse, "you're bad at video games, you should just stop" any time a person lost to the Magus Sisters. But hey, we have "git gud or stop playing video games" right here in our very own thread! It's little wonder to me after reading such, why offline gamers, and offline Final Fantasy fans, have a lack of interest in MMORPGs and don't want to give Final Fantasy XIV a chance, either. It doesn't sound like the amount of effort the average player put into Final Fantasy V is nearly enough for XIV gamers. And XIV fans don't seem interested in that demographic playing, either.

According to Final Fantasy XIV players, the average Final Fantasy offline player would seem to be a "you don't pay my sub toxic casual" who parses badly and didn't read a guide for Chrysalis while enjoying the story. It's hardly any wonder that such fans aren't so interested embracing Final Fantasy Online in kind.