The difficulty of Normal Content in this game needs to increase.

[VelKallor]

Y'know, to hark back to what I said earlier...if any of you that do savage or extremes are criticising normal content as "too easy" , yet have third party programs..lets see you do it with a normal UI..because I suspect that the moment those addons are taken away, it will be a very different story.

"Normal content is too easy"...in the same breath "I cant do savage or extreme content without addons , callouts and a dps meter".

So.....which is it?

I get annoyed by it when people say crap like 'I cant do savage because I have a life'

I get annoyed when someone tells me to schedule my life around a video game.

This is 2023 not 1980.

The age disparity between then and now is huge, the average gamer is now in their mid to late 30's or older,

The average age of a video game in Australia has remained at 34 years old and nearly half of all players are female.

Older Australians also getting in on the act with 42 per cent of those aged 65 and over identifying as gamers...the perception that gaming is a young person’s domain has also been shattered with news that less than a quarter of videogame players are under 18.

So yes, people do have lives, they have kids and jobs that take more than enough of their time, by end of the day they are ALREADY worn out and dont want to have to deal with yet more stress and hassle and schedules. This..surprises you?

No one works 9-5 anymore, an INCREASING number of people work from home ( and for anyone who dislikes this trend, allow me to illustrate )....what happens when you scream "get back to the office or be fired" to your staff, add in a "manager" who apparently has been living under a rock for the last three years ...orders a staffmember to come in sick..what was the end result?

200 cases of COVID

( It didnt happen you say? Ohhhh yes it did....that particular company is now in a 300 foot fwe heap. )

Offices are Petri dishes..lemme clue you in in something btw, when I worked fulltime in an office I lost COUNT of the days I got sick, coughs, colds, flu, you name it.....what happened after I stopped working and was at home? I didnt get sick AT ALL and have had maybe one bout of flu in five years. Work from home has zero to do with "skill in a video game", with the current trends being what they are, I predict that in ten years offices will be a thing of the past, a few scattered here and there maybe, but thats all.

WFH will be the norm across a swathe of industries.

As ages increase, as the gaming population ages, normal content will become the go to area for ALL MMO's, things like savage etc will become a niche area, far more than they are now. A person in FF 14 at age 65 will have far less interest in extremes, Ultimates etc, and a lot more into story and casual content that can be cleared with a modicum of effort.

Ive said this before but it bears repeating: Demographics drive game design.

Times change, attitudes change, there is little to nothing wrong with normal content as it is now. You have hard mode for solo scenarios, you have Criterion Variant, Extreme, Savage, Ultimate...so I dont see an issue here.