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

[Tyintheron]

I hear that, I've been running Shisui of the Violet Tides repeatedly just for all the outfits and weapons. Sometimes solo, sometimes via Duty Finder, and I always perk up when it pops up in Leveling roulette (one of the few roulettes I still do).

Likewise, I really REALLY wanted to do Return to Ivalice because I'm a huge fan of Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy 12... but I really REALLY don't have the confidence to do it after my performances in Shadow of Mhach, where I still keep putting myself through Dun Scaith for the minion only to lose every Need roll, lol.

Having a bad run (or a bad run of luck) can definitely make it a lot tougher to want to press on with your goals, that's for sure!

My wife and I once had an incident where we'd logged in to the new WoW expansion... Warlords of Draenor, I think it was... and got to our first dungeon. It was literally two hours into the expansion being released at midnight, and one of the random party members was going absolutely berserk about people not knowing the mechanics of the normal dungeon bosses. Tried to vote-kick people, started cursing when the vote-kick failed - he was the whole bingo card. Two hours in! It was wild.

My tolerance for slogging through that kind of thing over a video game is pretty much non-existant these days. The idea of dipping back into organized progression raiding actually makes me chuckle. People just get SO ANGRY.

[Aidorouge]

Having a bad run (or a bad run of luck) can definitely make it a lot tougher to want to press on with your goals, that's for sure!

My wife and I once had an incident where we'd logged in to the new WoW expansion... Warlords of Draenor, I think it was... and got to our first dungeon. It was literally two hours into the expansion being released at midnight, and one of the random party members was going absolutely berserk about people not knowing the mechanics of the normal dungeon bosses. Tried to vote-kick people, started cursing when the vote-kick failed - he was the whole bingo card. Two hours in! It was wild.

My tolerance for slogging through that kind of thing over a video game is pretty much non-existant these days. The idea of dipping back into organized progression raiding actually makes me chuckle. People just get SO ANGRY.

Aye, I've had my fill of similar things, thanks to WoW too no less, and it certainly made me re-think or disengage from content even when I did clear it back then. I mean, I did Onyxia's Lair and Molten Core back when it was still 40 man only, and I was still left thinking I was too old for that shit and I wasn't even 30 yet, lol. Nowadays I don't have it in me to herd cats, especially when a lot of players literally are cat people, so even if I could do the hardest of what FF14 has to offer, I still wouldn't take it to the same degree I did in WoW or SWTOR, my reaction time just isn't the same anymore for starters.

...It's all punctuated by me being a home care provider, so I get to see first-hand how people's age and disability can impact the things they want to enjoy ...or did enjoy... and being 41 myself, I know that can/will be me some day. So I guess there's a lot of personal bias in there too for just thinking there's nothing wrong with having options for everyone, casual or hardcore, but it's usually the hardcore players that are vehemently against it even when it often times doesn't impact them at all. And I won't just chalk it up to a lack of maturity, because that's disingenuous to the hardcore players who are in fact welcoming of all, to say nothing of the players even older than me still getting their clears.

[Tyintheron]

...It's all punctuated by me being a home care provider, so I get to see first-hand how people's age and disability can impact the things they want to enjoy ...or did enjoy... and being 41 myself, I know that can/will be me some day. So I guess there's a lot of personal bias in there too for just thinking there's nothing wrong with having options for everyone, casual or hardcore, but it's usually the hardcore players that are vehemently against it even when it often times doesn't impact them at all. And I won't just chalk it up to a lack of maturity, because that's disingenuous to the hardcore players who are in fact welcoming of all, to say nothing of the players even older than me still getting their clears.

I'll never understand the whole "let's keep things worse!" mentality. Something like bots to help people train up for multiplayer, for example, has been "a video game thing" forever, and hasn't seemed to hurt their respective genres at all.

As for getting older...

...my mother-in-law, who is a generation older than my own relatively older self, managed to slog her way to max rank in PvP in Guild Wars 2 through sheer bloody-mindedness over a two year period. She couldn't figure out how to move and user her character's abilities at the same time, so she'd just sit in an arena and one-finger hammer whichever number key's ability was off cooldown, standing in the one spot until she inevitably died and respawned, enjoying it for what it was.

We had to replace her large character keyboard twice because the number keys had holes punched through them from the nightly beatings they took.

When I asked her at one point if she copped a lot of name-calling she said it happened all the time, she just laughed it off as "people being idiots."

I thought that was pretty cool.