Difficulty of normal content.

[Deslyxic]

Right, like tons and tons of people did with Shadowbringers and Endwalker. Because they were boring and had nothing to do once you finished the MSQ if you didn't raid. I just don't see how you can take a personal opinion about your experience in the game and extrapolate it to the entire community. Do you know how many midcore players came over from WoW and then immediately went back when Dragonflight came out because Endwalker had no endgame outside of savage? A lot. Do you know why WoW is having a huge resurgence in popularity right now? Because the devs decided to actually listen to their most dedicated players, hardcore and midcore alike, and designed the game FOR them. The same thing happened with Destiny 2 recently. That game is also experiencing unprecedented levels of positive PR, because they also listened to their most dedicated fans instead of catering to the lowest common denominator. That is how games become popular, when they have a vision and stick to it, and cater to the audience that actually cares to play the game regularly. And by the way, this is not me saying that CBU3 should cater exclusively to hardcore raiders or whatever, but that they should cater to the people that care enough about the game to post on the forums, reddit, etc. the ones that actually log in and play the game regularly and don't let their subscriptions lapse the month after a story patch comes out. I see a lot more of those types of people on here agreeing with me than they do with you.

But if you feel that I represent such a small minority of the player base wouldn't it be healthier to just ignore me and move on?
And BTW, I wouldn't take people in this forum agreeing with you are as a solid metric, forums and other social media interactions are such a small portion of the player base in any game, this is not exception. That's why I don't let the 29 pages of comments berating me get to me because I know they don't represent the community of the game.

[JadeCurtiss]

But if you feel that I represent such a small minority of the player base wouldn't it be healthier to just ignore me and move on?

You're right! Good advice.

[Narroo]

I honestly don't really understand the viewpoint of the content in DT being hard, sure its 'harder' than EW, but let us be honest here and realize the truth that EVERYTHING is 'harder' than EW content. EW was the last expansion in a 10 yr long story with a HUGE influx of people to the game from ShB, which led to a lot of hand holding in EW. People complained that the Garlemald quest where you become a Garlean soldier was too hard so they added an easy mode if you died.

Unfortunately, Normal raids 'is' easy mode for raids. Nothing is hard to figure out, its not impossible to kill with 20+ deaths, the only way to insta wipe is if you fall from the floor breaking, but after seeing that one time that should literally never happen again because its telegraphed so you know its coming. As people have already said if you find it too hard, its optional you never need to do it. If you want to do it, learn your job. It says you are a Red Mage and I'm willing you wager you are just standing in place casting or running around not casting neither of these things is ideal. You need to get use to movement and slide casting so you don't get hit by everything a fight throws at you. Take the time to practice on a training dummy or in a dungeon, but don't sit here trying to be a keyboard warrior of light and complain when you don't put in any effort.

[LilithKha]

But if you feel that I represent such a small minority of the player base wouldn't it be healthier to just ignore me and move on?
And BTW, I wouldn't take people in this forum agreeing with you are as a solid metric, forums and other social media interactions are such a small portion of the player base in any game, this is not exception. That's why I don't let the 29 pages of comments berating me get to me because I know they don't represent the community of the game.

Yep! Good point, you aren't really relevant to the discussion here anymore, and neither are the handful of people still complaining. That being said, I think it is very important to shut down your talking points because I think most of the people here, who disagree with you, would absolutely hate for normal content to regress to please you, a member of a tiny minority of players.

[Blacksuit00]

But if you feel that I represent such a small minority of the player base wouldn't it be healthier to just ignore me and move on?
And BTW, I wouldn't take people in this forum agreeing with you are as a solid metric, forums and other social media interactions are such a small portion of the player base in any game, this is not exception. That's why I don't let the 29 pages of comments berating me get to me because I know they don't represent the community of the game.

No. Because for some strange reason the Devs and yoshi would bypass all the huge crowds cheering them on for how great the improvements in dawntrail are and they’ll put a magnifying glass over you and the 3 other people who don’t like that the improvements subjected them to innocuous inconveniences and say “ WELP. LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE OUR VERDICT. JUDGING BY THE FRIVOLOUS COMPLAINTS FROM THE 4 PEOPLE OVER THERE WE HAVE TO CHANGE THE ENTIRE GAMES STRUCTURE TO APPEAL TO THEIR DESIRES “ It’s happened before and we damn well wanna make sure it doesn’t happen this time.