Why do casual players seem entitled to cosmetic items added in game?

[SweetestLily]

Girl how many threads are you going to make about casuals and chaotic raid. Give your fingers a rest!

[ServerCollaps]

the hairstyle isnt gated behind anything. You are always allowed to buy it from the marketboard. You can get it by gathering, by crafting, by selling your soul in clubs or by any other casual means that grant you gil

[Ardeth]

I think it's just incredibly tone deaf. Casual players are never going to do content above extreme difficulty. They just aren't. Every single metric you look at proves it. So here's this hairstyle that is attractive to that playerbase probably more than the hardcore players that are obtaining it and selling it and in their infinite wisdom they didn't just add the item to some other activity in the game instead of cheapening it by selling it on the marketboard. So when I buy it for a few million gil, I won't have the same sense of accomplishment.

I just wish we actually got some long forms of casual content. Where are the relics? Even the new exploratory zone is off in the distance, but hey, keep subscribing. We care about your playstyle.

TWO updates, not one, but two updates with the only meaningful content being stuff that appeals to the top 10 percent of the playerbase while the other 90 percent get chicken feed. Great tactic.

[Gurgeh]

Girl how many threads are you going to make about casuals and chaotic raid. Give your fingers a rest!

Well, they do have devs, is shouldn't be beyond them to give us something to do 'in game'. This is the closest we'll get to our moneys worth. Honestly I'm actually now so pissed I had to resub for a whole month just for this.

And I really tried to be ready for day 0, to give it some chance. But it had gone to shit by day three.
I got so much better in just a couple of hours. Then no prog for a day. And it was a 'miserable' way and reason to make no prog.
I want my money back.

This really is a case of "idle hands and devils work".

[Nero-Voidstails]

I do think the other thing is well like so many havexsaid coordination with 7 people can be a pain now it's 23 and like many would said they also pay a sub to play I can get why you lock stuff Behind harder content (I dont like the hairstyle) but I think hairstyle can be tricky.

I think cool mount should be for sure! and when I learned the hairstyle was I was like hurgh this is to force player into harder content sadly

[Gurgeh]

My dude you cannot conceive of people just playing the game and enjoying themselves crafting?
"No I don't believe anyone is working out actions themselves"
BRUH come on you can't be serious. Stop existing in hyperbole.

You've said you're a console player in previous posts, so all I can imagine is you sitting on your PS5 silently fuming under the assumption that every PC player is botting or something, jeez.

oooh! I missed this. /rubsHands

Oh your all going to get a hoot out if this! Its worse than that. I have a PC and PC license.
But I loved the game so much, I bought a PS5. And the game all over again... and get this... (oh my word your gonna really going to get a kick out of my unhapiness over this you sick Fs) ... just so sit and cosily craft from my sofa. Like I used to, enjoy ticking of that crafting log an an ARR sprout. I liked crafting but I just wanted to chill.
Then I'm getting ready to start crafing my first end game stuff in EW end game.
"Damn this is hard eveything keeps breaking, and and my gear stats keep changing as I gear and meld up" I say
"Oh, eveyone just uses the solver" they say
"The fin what?" I say
Now it was impressive the solver. Very. "I'll bet there is an add on some where where it can recalualte as you proc and just hit go" I say
"oh, there is. Its great" they say
But its just boring using the solver. I don't like being at my PC for long periods. I just want to relax.
No, don't tell me "well, just enter the recipe manually, and don't lose your place, and dont' make mistakes."
Hey I even setup a trial account to be able to 'chat' my macros over to my main acount... but.. what a fricking hassle. And installed XIV on a tablet! Anti fun.

Hey! I even bought DT for the PS5 also! I bought it twice! (yeah, pretty early on in the MSQ. Before all my casual friends unsubbed)
Its not SQX fault I got a PS5 to sit and do chill stuff, but I wasn't expecting my casual friends to leave, and DT to be so, I do't want to say bad. But the only reason it maybe not to me is I'm such a simpleton when it comes to story.
I know right! I'm not so much of a sub 100 moron that I can't recognize what a complete Fing loser I am!
Oh the lolly-lolz!
Yeah I can't sub back without feeling ashamed now. Its could only be a sign of sickness.

Yes I bought a PS5 'just' for XIV. (I'm not rich. I'm not destitute, but I'm not rich. At the most I've ever had 1 extra retainer)
Bye Creative o/

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Edit: I know! I can play the mobile game from my sofa! But my phone is four years old. I'll just buy another! (f me I do make myself laugh sometime)
I hope they do a Winnie the Pooh crossover. Now that would be the most Chad thing ever! (move over nods to Dark Souls)

[Kandraxx]

The first problem is with adding 1% sweat group content with rewards locked behind it to a 99% single player game. If I learned one thing while playing this game then it was that people here rather pay on a boosting site than to deal with the agony of finding and grinding through people in a very passive-aggressive and artificial manner, not because the content would be especially hard to do.

Using the term casual as a measure for skill level is kinda misleading, at least as far as FF14 is concerned.

[Infindox]

I think it's just incredibly tone deaf. Casual players are never going to do content above extreme difficulty. They just aren't. Every single metric you look at proves it. So here's this hairstyle that is attractive to that playerbase probably more than the hardcore players that are obtaining it and selling it and in their infinite wisdom they didn't just add the item to some other activity in the game instead of cheapening it by selling it on the marketboard. So when I buy it for a few million gil, I won't have the same sense of accomplishment.

I just wish we actually got some long forms of casual content. Where are the relics? Even the new exploratory zone is off in the distance, but hey, keep subscribing. We care about your playstyle.

TWO updates, not one, but two updates with the only meaningful content being stuff that appeals to the top 10 percent of the playerbase while the other 90 percent get chicken feed. Great tactic.

That's the issue lately with the game over everything. There was NOTHING this patch.
Society quests? Sure I like the lore with these but I did them for like 10 minutes in the morning and then I was done.
The custom deliveries? Same thing, and this is even worse as it's a weekly thing.
There was no reason to release 7.1 like this without something grindy. That's what I expected the Chaotic raid to be with its reward structure. Instead you can see what it is.

[Oizen]

I think it's just incredibly tone deaf. Casual players are never going to do content above extreme difficulty. They just aren't. Every single metric you look at proves it. So here's this hairstyle that is attractive to that playerbase probably more than the hardcore players that are obtaining it and selling it and in their infinite wisdom they didn't just add the item to some other activity in the game instead of cheapening it by selling it on the marketboard. So when I buy it for a few million gil, I won't have the same sense of accomplishment.

I just wish we actually got some long forms of casual content. Where are the relics? Even the new exploratory zone is off in the distance, but hey, keep subscribing. We care about your playstyle.

TWO updates, not one, but two updates with the only meaningful content being stuff that appeals to the top 10 percent of the playerbase while the other 90 percent get chicken feed. Great tactic.

This has been an ongoing issue with the game since Endwalker began.
I have no problem with harder content getting glams, hairs and mounts to sell, but casuals dont get shit to do.
That said there is a large sect of casual players who do not even play the casual content we did get so the line does have to be drawn at some point. If your gameloop involves afking in limsa every day you shouldn't just have free items mailed to you

[Gurgeh]

So chaotic came out, and I've seen multiple posters on the forums making statements along the line of

"The hairstyle should not have been added in chaotic when SE knows lots of casual players will want it"

Why do some people feel entitled to cosmetic items such as this? I genuinely don't get it. It's obviously there either: as a reward to players doing difficult content, or as a means to encourage people to step out of their comfort zone.
Even so, it's purchasable on the market board, so why is it such a problem?

Please please. I just gotta know....l
I originally took this post as serious. And I can get why someone would find it hard to understand why people get upset because they can't get hold of just one set of pretty pixels. (I myself get why they do, I don't get upset, but then I don't even care about mounts)
But now I gotta know...
Because if this was trying to be controversial, it's just goddamned artful! Such a tiny nudge and... 'woompf'. The gift that gives on giving. It just lightly dusts on every raw nerve going for a whole bunch of different groups people that are otherwise loosely connected, gathered then all together and unites them by giving them a big F you.
I mean, bravo! I believe it probably wasn't deliberate, I want to belive most people are nice. Like I say I understand it. But I also appreciate exceptional craftsmanship!

Please, was this just being controversial?

I mean and the timing!
Bloody master class!