Endgame should be challenging - that's the point (from a casual player)

[Kandraxx]

The problem is that no content in this game is challenging. It's all about perseverance, throwing ungodly amounts of time at it and the pain of forcibly interacting with 7 other people in a superficial way in what is a silent single player game with other players around. Hell, I'd argue not even the Necromancer title is hard because you can just keep going as a tank until you get that like 5-6 free rages from 181-199 IF you just throw the hundreds of hours at it that are required. The raids are artificial difficulty all the way, because it's so cheap and low effort to do for them and it essentially allows them to stretch even the most braindead garbage for weeks/months.

It's like...imagine Elden Ring, you play through the game all alone but now you're at Malenia and there's this glowing gate that tells you to now go online and group with 7 other players so you can fight her, her HP are x8 and if any of them fucks up you're also dead and going back and that's FFXIV in a nutshell.

The other question is, why are they even still doing 'high-end duties"? For the ~10% of the playerbase that participates in it? Should we now subtract all the plugin cheats and run buyers from that number and arrive at maybe ~3% fully legit players?