We Need to Start Expecting Mid-Level Sprouts to Play Better

[Bukachu]

The problem is, if people fail too much, they complain about the game being too hard. A good example is Shinryu close to SBs launch. It wasn't long before people complained the fight was too hard and they wanted SE to make it easier. Luckily they didn't but this didn't stop people from complaining about it.

The point is, even if they were to make the game harder, people wouldn't get better to compensate, they would just complain it is too hard and this is the mentality that needs to stop.

There is also another observation I would like to make, and whilst it is purely based on what I have witnessed, I'm sure it happens across multiple DCs. If you do a fight within the first few days, people expect you to go in blind, if you wipe, no problems, you tend to discuss what went wrong and how to deal with it, we are all learning after all. However, give it a little while and people start to not listen. You can wipe, someone explain the mechanics and they ignore you. It is a weird shift in mentality which does almost seem close to, I don't want to learn the fight, I want you to carry me through it.

Its possible to make game harder without changing any existing content, you just add a new, harder content.

that's it really. people who want harder content will go and do it, people who dont can do lower difficulty content.

[Deceptus]

Its possible to make game harder without changing any existing content, you just add a new, harder content.

that's it really. people who want harder content will go and do it, people who dont can do lower difficulty content.

That doesn't help the lower skilled people get any better. You teach them to be better by providing small difficulty increases gradually through the MSQ.

[george357]

well i have played this game sence the release of 2.0/arr and gotten better over time i learn new tricks every year and get lots of compts if new content give me a few days to get used to it and i will do better.