If you continue to dumb down the game, you will lose half your player base

[BaconBits]

No what you are hearing is Hardcore Players who think this game is to easy and claiming to be casual and posting here. Most of the people on the forums are not casuals. Thats why a survey wouldn't help since the majority who would answer it are a minority of the consumer base. Basically stats can show us what people are playing and not playing and it can show where the problem is. Warrior is not being played by the majority of tanks because of the cone. This might change now it has an circle instead of a cone.

FFXIV 1.0 even Yoshi P and staff said the staff who made FF11 felt because they made a profit before they can do the same thing all over again. FFXIV 1.0 was a failure because no casual wanted to play it and those playing it were the hardcore fanbase.

This you?

[MiaShino]

This you?

Pffffffffffffffff! So am not the only one who also maybe perhaps occasionally searches the publically available repository of manually compiled spread sheet data. Sometimes I wish I did not.. morbid curiosity hurts..

Not one single fight or flight cast. Request a cat straaaaaiiiight into Confetti doors yummy.

It is always those who refuse to put effort who are the most surprised when the seven other people are sick of having back problems. The same talking heads with the same fricken bad takes one after the other. They are in every. single. one of these threads. Every single one.

No little Timmy if you were the majority no one would be allowed to drive cars anymore.

Seriously? You get fight or flight at level two. Maahhh.. How the heck do you not learn to use fight or flight? You cannot make a game for people like this because the medium was not designed for them. Sports are not for everyone and neither are video games and some are not suited to work with others in team environment.

Edit; Annnnnd no goring blade either. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[Rilifane]

Pffffffffffffffff! So am not the only one who also maybe perhaps occasionally searches the publically available repository of manually compiled spread sheet data. Sometimes I wish I did not.. morbid curiosity hurts..

Not one single fight or flight cast. Request a cat straaaaaiiiight into Confetti doors yummy.

It is always those who refuse to put effort who are the most surprised when the seven other people are sick of having back problems. The same talking heads with the same fricken bad takes one after the other. They are in every. single. one of these threads. Every single one.

No little Timmy if you were the majority no one would be allowed to drive cars anymore.

Seriously? You get fight or flight at level two. Maahhh.. How the heck do you not learn to use fight or flight? You cannot make a game for people like this because the medium was not designed for them. Sports are not for everyone and neither are video games and some are not suited to work with others in team environment.

Edit; Annnnnd no goring blade either. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Request a cat had me wheezing
Never heard that one before, now I can never unsee it.

(And no, you are not alone with this. I tend to do it as well when something smells like someone has no clue what they're talking about and blaming others)

[DPZ2]

This you?

This is a meme of some sort? Because a solid gray background doesn't say anything, and you're attempt at ?humor? falls flat to those of us who don't follow.

[Raoabolic]

This is a meme of some sort? Because a solid gray background doesn't say anything, and you're attempt at ?humor? falls flat to those of us who don't follow.

I think she called em' a grey. Pretty rude tbh, lol. /s

[Kaurhz]

This is a meme of some sort? Because a solid gray background doesn't say anything, and you're attempt at ?humor? falls flat to those of us who don't follow.

It’s meant to be a play on the whole “the website that shall not be named” ranking system. Basically, calling him a grey parse player. Just feeding into his stereotype, which is a little unsightly. I assume that is what it correlates to.

[Lauront]

It’s meant to be a play on the whole “the website that shall not be named” ranking system. Basically, calling him a grey parse player. Just feeding into his stereotype, which is a little unsightly. I assume that is what it correlates to.

Unsightly, perhaps, but given some of his recent "contributions", no doubt well deserved.

[Kaurhz]

Unsightly, perhaps, but given some of his recent "contributions", no doubt well deserved.

Yes, both are unsightly and unhealthy to contribution. Thing is the dude perpetuates the stereotype, and then you have people clever enough to try and conform to said stereotype. Personally, I wouldn’t exactly be surprised people holding a mindset against more complexities in the game when on several occasions the forums have used logs to try and discredit opinion, or just to borderline harass. But again, both are unsightly.

[RyuDragnier]

Yes, both are unsightly and unhealthy to contribution. Thing is the dude perpetuates the stereotype, and then you have people clever enough to try and conform to said stereotype. Personally, I wouldn’t exactly be surprised people holding a mindset against more complexities in the game when on several occasions the forums have used logs to try and discredit opinion, or just to borderline harass. But again, both are unsightly.

People have been against anything they deem "difficult" since ARR. Look at how people refused to run Pharos Sirius until it got nerfed because it was "too hard", when all it required was for people to pay attention. The first boss was literally designed to teach people to not burn things down all the time, people failed it, and raged because they couldn't just focus the boss and have to kill adds. People got Steps of Faith nerfed because "doing the mechanics" was apparently too hard for people to do (the complaints about how long it takes to reset was valid though). People tried to get Final Steps of Faith nerfed because they felt it was too hard, and tried to do the same thing with Royal Menagerie. DRK in HW was "too hard" and the job got destroyed for it. The playerbase has a massive aversion to anything difficult at all. I know people who refused to run anything with the word "raid" in it until they were force to do Alliance Raids for the main story from 5.3 on.

[BaconBits]

Yes, both are unsightly and unhealthy to contribution. Thing is the dude perpetuates the stereotype, and then you have people clever enough to try and conform to said stereotype. Personally, I wouldn’t exactly be surprised people holding a mindset against more complexities in the game when on several occasions the forums have used logs to try and discredit opinion, or just to borderline harass. But again, both are unsightly.

I'm not here for intelligent discussion, especially not with someone that can barely play their way out of a paper bag.