Mr.Happy Interview with Yoshi P

[SturmChurro]

Yoshida's response about challenging 4p content is infuriating to be quite honest.

I really hate how they want every 4p content ever to be DF-friendly because "there are a lot of casual players" as he puts it. No one is asking them to do harder dungeons INSTEAD of the usual easy ones.
It's not like players have been managing to form parties to take on challenging EIGHT player content for over 8 years or anything...

I'd take harder but not "savage" level dungeons too. Anything. Dungeons used to be my favorite kind of content. Now I find them so boring I stopped doing expert roulettes...

I don't care if this is an unpopular take but large scale content is a mess. I couldn't care less. Even the Ivalice ones felt more like being carried by a current than actually engaging.

It's funny. Players are underperforming at such a level that they don't want to dedicate the resources and time to difficult small-scale content. If each player has to pull their own weight, it just won't work with the playerbase at large. The thing here is though, I suspect they are so tight with resources that a regular dungeon and a 'hard mode' just simply isn't feasible. It literally is one or the other. As stated in the Mr. Happy interview, the harder the content the more time and resources it takes to create.

. Another major reason is because our community continues to grow -- naturally this is bringing in many casual players, and I believe that looking at the bigger pictures large-scale content will be easier for all players to get into.

Here it looks like they'd rather use those resources to create general content, that players can be carried through, so that it is less niche. Probably influenced by Bozja CEs.

Unfortunately, I think the point is to be 'carried by the current'.