Mobs chasing you on 2.0

[DarthTaru]

FFXI players first trip from Windurst to the Dunes, or our first trip to Jueno (something we all seem to remember) I consider proof of how wrong the people are that argue in favor of leeshing (gimped) mobs. Not only are mobs that leesh ripe for `exploiting` (I've killed a level 98 Basilisk by forcing him to go into stupid mode on his `boundary line`), they discredit the world outside the safety of your city walls as a dangerous and unforgiving place.

People remember their first journey to Jueno because it was dangerous, because it required caution, because they might not have survived. Maybe they carefully avoided detection all together, or maybe they made it through much of the zone running for their little lives with a band of goblins on their heels.
I introduced a friend to FFXI long after I had been playing it. When I visited him IRL a week or so later he excitedly refereed to FFXI as "like a horror movie" because he was terrified in certain zones while traveling alone.

Some people get it. Some people just don't.
Hopefully Yoshi P gets it or else this is going to be a very empty and uninteresting game after all the work his team has invested in its resurrection. If they cater to the people who want everything to be as easy as a fetch-quest that doesn't even require you to leave town they'll find they catered to the people who will leave this game, like they left their last, and their last before that, the day something shinier is released by another company.

Final Fantasy isn't for everyone. Its single player RPGs never were and its MMO never was (although I think a lacking advertisement campaign is why XI never did better than it did).

If Final Fantasy XIV does try to be for everyone SE will soon find they made a game for no one.
I have no problem with making some casual friendly content but if they're going to make a Phantasy Star Online game (set to ezmode) and attach an FF label to it, they'll be finished in the MMO business forever.