Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
Why is Savage going to be delayed by at least a week going forward even though in the past they preferred to open it patch day? It's because Savage raiders who are playing a story focused game that's part of a story focused franchise wanted to be able to enjoy the story before they moved into the more challenging version of the content instead of having to rush through it at the start then replay the story later on a different character.


CBU3 has learned that most players don't want to go hardcore challenge mode from day one. They want to enjoy the content at a casual pace first. Not to mention that having the chance to play through the easy mode first gives them a chance to learn and study base mechanics so they're better prepared going into hard mode.

Does it not seem reasonable that they might want to incorporate that information into the design of other games?

If you don't like that design, don't play CBU3 games. Go play God of War. Go play Elden Ring. Stop complaining that a game is easy when all you've experienced is part of the easy mode and haven't managed to unlock the hard mode yet.
NOt sure what FFXIV has to do with this but it kind of made sense since the Savage players asked for it to be delayed so they could get the content done and get their equipment all done before Savage dropped which totally makes sense for the dev team to delay it by a week because as you know Savage isn't done is a couple of days and they miss out on the story bits and get its spoilery because you literally have to go into hiding to avoid spoilers. Nothing to do with difficulty selection. You either participate in Savage or you don't.

Since FFXVI is single player game, there isn't a reason not to have a difficulty mode be selected at the start of the game and turning it down during the progression like a lot of SP games do this. However, if FFXVI plays like Elden Ring as your example and you need your previous gear to make progression on subsequently playthroughs then it makes sense to lock but if not, then yea they CBU3 messed up on that bit.