People Enjoy hard Games

[Ath192]

Ath wasn't trying to be responsive to what I was saying. They were looking for an opening to take a potshot at me since we've been on opposite sides of some of these conversations.

I wasn't taking a potshot at you. I was merely asking a question based on what you said wondering who actually looks up guides for normal content.

I would appreciate if you didn't twist my words into making all of this about yourself. It sounds like you developed main character syndrome and played the martyr when my response was a general question to the audience. Your post merely sparked a thought about who actually looks at guides for normal content in FFXIV because they feel it's necessary, it could have been anyone. However, due to the level of self-importance you adopt when people reply to you I will make a point to not quote you in the future until you actually start engaging on a general level instead of a personal one.

The answer on normal guides is not a lot of people.

I looked up FFXIV Euphrosyne guide on youtube, the top hit is a video by MTQ at 65K views, If I do the same thing for The Voidcast Dais EX, Hector's has over a quarter million views. Clearly if the majority of the playerbase is "Casual" if people actually looked up guides for normal content in XIV then the guide view count should be astronomically higher than the minority of the playerbase that does harder content.

Thats pretty telling on how easy the game is, while I believe normal content should be able to be cleared blind the fact is the game is so basic almost noone bothers to check anything regarding normal content because it is too uninteresting. The game should be striving to measure the preferred difficulty level of players and develop content based on the median outcome of those measurements. I feel like they are serving the lowest denominator of difficulty so that way they can just get everyone to hop in, but that actually makes the game boring for a significant portion of the playerbase and they end up leaving.


Also, if you look up FFXIV - Castrum Lacus Litore Raid Guide you will see it has 228K views, this is a bit better, and IMO, what raids should feel like in general in FFXIV. Clearly it was more interesting to run than Euphrosyne.