Quote Originally Posted by Cidel View Post
VERY GOOD POINTS!
See I feel a lot of this to, in a lot of MMOs people with low skill simply are removed and told to do better, I understand the want to create a much more welcoming enviornment, but XIV to me, feels like the anti-thesis to what MMOs are in a lot of ways. When you look at how parties work in other games, it's not impossible to clear content if someones a bot, or a troll or new or outright uncaring. This usually encourages players to self moderate and help and or remove said player(s) and move on and worst case report them, XIV however has moved into this new extreme, counter to those MMOs, you should remove yourself, impose difficulty on yourself, and not be bothered by the lack of basic knowledge and competency, that one should have gained over doing the MSQ and all of its content, at least here in NA.

What needs to be done imo, and this ofc will be subjective to many, is to go back to having players not participating being an active detriment, back during Eden tier 1, I did normal raid roulette with a friend, we both tanked and it was Titan, Then entire party died to his car form and we ended up kiling him, just the two of us on DRK and GNB, from 70% health. This is a good example of how much they have removed needing others for content, a skilled duo of tanks or healers or dps can kill most content outside of Alliance raids with enough forethought. The only thing keeping Alliance raids from being that easy is the need of multiple groups, but even then With enough healing and kitchen sinking mit, have groups survived.

I wish these were extreme situations that were rare, but they aren't, and the fact that so much of the games content is becoming THAT EASY is worrying to say the least. It feels Yoshi P and his devs are scared of engaging the players in fair terms, and in many ways are babying us like we're incapable ot learning, and sad as it is to say, many players seem to act that way. I once asked a player if they had a job, they said yeah, I asked them if they can drive, they said yeah, I asked if they paid taxes, they said ofc they do. If we're all adults living life, controlling heavy machines, putting PCs together, all types of very difficult things, I'm sure we can learn to play a game, I wish the devs saw that.