Has the WoW crowd taken over now?

[Xaruko_Nexume]

EDIT: Also, I don't appreciate the soft implication that I'm not a customer that deserves to be catered to. How is my sub money worth any less than yours?

It's not a matter of anyone "deserving" anything. It's about what I believe, would make the game even more successful, which is focusing time and financial resources to basically anything besides difficult content. What the game does best. If someone wants a game with emphasis on hardcore raiding with a competitive environment, there is a lot better out there for that. You, and others are free and likely obviously disagree with my assessment and that is fine and to be expected.

I'm sorry you seem to take it personally that I believe the game would be better with little to none of the favorite content that you personally enjoy, but I do believe it. The devs know it too. You can see it on the constant complaints of "This game just gets easier and easier!" and "Will we ever get harder dungeons again?" No, you probably won't.

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So I'm a "sweaty one" now? I'm trying to have a legitimate conversation, but you keep speaking about me and my entire FFXIV social group with really derisive terms. I'm putting a lot of effort into being polite here. I don't feel that effort is being reciprocated.

The hardest content will obviously have less people that engage with it than casual content. Candy Crush has more players than Dark Souls does, so I guess Dark Souls doesn't deserve to exist?

If Savage/Ultimates goes away, what happens to the crafter treadmill? If there's no need to craft high quality, top end gear, there's no need to spend months gathering top end materials, making HQ crafter gear, spending millions upon millions of gil pentamelding it, and then spending thousands of tomestones from daily roulettes (trickling back into the more casual content) building the higher ilvl crafted gear.

And even on a lower level than Savage/Ultimate, there are EX primals that a *MUCH* larger bulk of the player base engages in.

Again, you can choose not to engage in a piece of content and that's totally fine, but please avoid such broad and dismissive strokes as saying that a game is "better" without it. There's a reason FFXIV is more popular than Second Life.

Well, yes. I consider savage raiding sweaty, but not the sweatiest of content out there of course.

Candy Crush and Dark Souls are two separate games. They bother cater to a very different and specific market from one another, and they both do it well. I am not arguing difficult games can't or should not exist. I am only arguing that this game, would likely see more success and would be improved, by not catering and indeed not even creating content on the difficulty level of savage or beyond.

Regarding the "crafting treadmill", I was under the impression crafting was an alternative to end game PvE rewards, not to prepare for them necessarily. Is it not? I have only been playing 7 months and the only crafting I have done is a little bit of fishing, so please forgive my ignorance on that topic. That said, I personally know plenty of people who love crafting solely for the glamour and just craft the highest item level they can, and call it a day, never setting foot in savage, and they are quite satisfied with that.

As far as the reason this game is more popular than second life, there are a million reasons I can think of, and raiding isn't among them.

Im sorry you seem to keep taking things personally. It isn't personal, and doesn't really even have anything to do with you specifically, but since you seem to keep implying that you believe it is, and that I am somehow being impolite, I think this will be my last comment on the matter.