/r/ffxivdiscussion: A stricter ilvl sync is the solution to casual content being easy

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I've been saying it for 10 years. They're not gonna do it. They think it's GOOD that old content can be cleared by doing absolutely nothing. They think it's "accessible", because they don't want to make a video game, they want to make a movie, and that's been Square's MO ever since they got addicted to FMVs on the Playstation 1. That's why hard content isn't canon, that's why every fight is a static script, that's why jobs are just animation showcases. Because they want to tell a story, not to actually make an interactive experience, that part is a chore to them and they don't want to do it so they've made the game such that they can bang out all the actual gameplay in an afternoon and get back to making more tacky particle effects.