#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[ZephyrMenodora]

XIV is the only MMO I've seen that's so aggressive about bending backwards to cater to less-skilled players vs. actually challenging them to improve and learn, and it's dubious if it's even doing that much good for the player metrics.

I liked being able to offer advice to people complaining about the SB MSQ duties in novice network so they could succeed, but then they just added easy mode so they don't even need to try anymore.

I'm here to support this comment. Throughout this thread we've seen quite a few comments from certain people that they don't think they should encounter any failure or adversity when grouping with unskilled players, because unskilled players exist. Oddly this argument is cyclical - these players will never improve if they have no reason to, no failures they need to overcome, no one pushing them to improve their skills.

An MMO should slowly increase in difficulty as the levels increase, with the theory that people should be developing a skill set as they advance in the game. It's so strange that a good number of XIV players want no difficulty outside of the top 5% of endgame content.

The other day I had an alliance raid complain how "rough" the run was because there were about 5 1st timers undergeared. There were no wipes. Those players died regularly but it didn't cause any more issues than the inconvenience of slower dps and some additional rezzes. But I guess in XIV, succeeding the very first try with unskilled players is nearly an unacceptable challenge. Note if a group actually wipes it's not uncommon to see several people just leave the raid/dungeon, so unused they are to any difficulty.

Maybe there are a large number of players who just love to sleepwalk through content, I guess.