Quote Originally Posted by caffe_macchiato View Post
A lot of people have been praising the new chaotic as being a lot of fun. Given the reactions, this might be the most acclaimed piece of content besides the raid tier. Kudos to Square Enix for giving people what they want.

Also, it’s not about whether content is successful, it’s about winning. As in, your side (hardcore raiders) winning over the casuals who don’t post here. The game could die but you are still winning because you just gotta “get gud” and “stop whining”. FFXI, Guild Wars 1 and classic WoW are still played among the hardcore crowd. They won. There are plenty of games for us regular folk, like retail WoW or “hitting the bar” (MMOs are dead). FFXIV isn’t for us and that’s fine. “Get gud or get out”, as they say.
Basically how I'm starting to feel now with DT

Longer patches. Less casual skilled content (Society dies off in 2 weeks, Custom Deliveries are 10 minutes per week and had to wait 2 more months). Which is normal with the x.1 patch BUT the longer delay patches just make it more exasperated.

Normal Raids were a relative joke because they buffed so many classes because they were scared to nerf Picto but kept the raid difficulty as is.

Waiting until 7.2 and new tomestone gear for the Alliance after watching Mr. Happy's guide and going "I'm not floor warming 50% of the Shadowlord fight and getting 1 shot/bleeding to death. I won't be a drag to a raid"

But yeah, if everybody else is liking the higher difficulty (and no, I don't watch a *bleep* other monitor while doing content, I try to focus on healing the others while dodging the more often mechanics now or doing my rotations if I DPS), it's time for slower folks to move on.