Quote Originally Posted by Oizen View Post
Here's my 2 cents about that.

No one will ever say "Bro you gotta try this game, its good cause the controls are so complex!". Its just not going to happen, its not what makes a game good. The best games tend to have simple controls and their complexity come from game play mechanics. To me, almost all of the complexity of FFXIV has been stripped out, and it's all kinda mindless right now. I'd like to see that change more on a mechanical level rather than the buttons you press in sequence over the course of 10 minutes.

If the complexity of this game is resting solely on pressing 123 over 111, its too late for us. I functionally see very little difference between the two.
Hmmm, bit skewed to say simple controls are better when it has complex mechanics. Cause you can't apply this to XIV, that leaves literally 95% of all content in the dust... So you might as well Quote Yoshi-P and say " Just go play Ultimate ". And by your logic...Tic-Tac-Toe is a better game then Chess even though I know this is a skewed comparison.

Here's my 3 cents... I prefer a medium well seasoned steak, nice sear sometimes basted giving it depth and layers to its taste while I fill my tummy. A unseasoned boiled chicken? functionally will fill our tummies the same way yes very...very valid... but at that point? I don't see a difference when I play XIV Job-Gameplay-wise? vs reading a book be it a children's book or a dictionary while simultaneously squeezing a stress-ball the same way repeatedly in the same manner over and over... Oh, " functionally speaking " that is, mhm.

Apparently advocating for better is somehow Taboo. We want mediocrity. Promote it. Why play XIV? for everything but it's Job-Gameplay as you yourself put it. Why not make it also cause of Job-Gameplay... what's the negative of doing so?