FFXI vs FFXIV Difficulty

[Sephrick]

Its just as someone said, in FFXIV people are leveling everything because its easy not because its a challenge. In FFXI it was a challenge to level everything.

No it wasn't. It just took longer. That doesn't mean it was any more challenging.

The only challenge in XI was being the one to have claim over content -- whether it be an ideal exp camp, an HNM or a Dynamis zone.

[Charismatic]

No it wasn't. It just took longer. That doesn't mean it was any more challenging.

It doesn't mean that, but in this case it is true.
Leveling up in FFXI was quite literally more challenging than leveling up in FFXIV though the differences are minimal unless you talk about soloing.
Honestly, do you not remember the Goblin Smithies at that oh so very popular camp in Yuhtunga? How many times you'd get dead pullers. Links in Garliage, trains in Crawler's Nest and so on..?

Leveling in XI was brutal compared to XIV, not to say that it was hard because it wasn't but this is definitely some carebear stuff in comparison. And then if you want to talk about soloing... that was quite literally more difficult as well, try killing several even match-tough enemies in the 30s range in each game and tell me which it is harder to do it in (generally speaking).



So lets not even try to go there, normally I agree with you but in this instance I believe you are dead wrong.