Quote Originally Posted by Kaoru_Nagisa View Post
Also to those saying falling off of Titan or w/e "didn't let you learn anything"... you realize people could watch the fight while permadead, right? They could see mechanics going out, in what order, what they do, and generally get a sense of how to work through them by watching other players performing them. I'm not really bothered one way or another about that specifically, but they are effectively removing teaching tools for the sake of making ARR content even more boring and safe than it already was.
Yes, because I play video games to get knocked off and then watch other people play the game for me while I just get to sit there and stare. If I wanted to watch people play the game so I can learn, let me direct you to this site called YouTube.com.

A Realm Reborn was made in 2ish years, and while YoshiP himself was an MMO veteran and long time game designer himself, his team was relatively inexperienced. There's a lot of tech debt to 1.0 around ARR and just a lot of generally sloppy and amateur game design philosophies. Remember when they said we couldn't get a Cutter's Cry Hard because the map is seeped in 1.0 spaghetti code? The fact that they can even go back and change the map for Totorak and the fall off code in Titan and its ilk shows the team has come a long way and is pulling off the loose threads.