New NMs

[Jeronlmo]

Nobody, especially me ever said time = skill, its you having virtually no time to play and hate the fact that someone might be better geared than you or have access to something you dont.

Honestly though, by the sound of the updates otw the game is becomming more the way the gimps want it.

This is sad though, the majority of casuals barely play final fantasy, they just look for the newest/easiest game that can be beat in a few months and enjoy doing it in 5yrs. Hardcore gamers specifically those of us on final fantasy have been life-long fans of Square Enix made games and been since FF1. The fact that SE would consider/try (abyssea) to leave us behind is kinda sad.

Though if/when the day comes when an easier game comes out and all the casuals/12yr olds/soccer moms who were brought into gameing from the wii leave FF14 for the new fad and find themselves with no more dedicated fan base, we will have our laugh.

Imagine a world where all the hard-core gamers (generally leaders/members of massive HNM's that play non-stop to be the best no-longer have something as simple as a game as an outlet) lose this outlet... we will rule your rl.

(I had fun typeing some of this)

[Randis]

Nobody, especially me ever said time = skill

This is sad though, the majority of casuals barely play final fantasy, they just look for the newest/easiest game that can be beat in a few months and enjoy doing it in 5yrs. Hardcore gamers specifically those of us on final fantasy have been life-long fans of Square Enix made games and been since FF1.

i have played pretty much all SE games, pretty much all FF titles (all but the one for a mobile phone) some i completed more than 1 time, ( FFVI and FF tactics more than 4 times)

Please tell me what SE game was actually hard? None of the FF titles was hard, The FF series is pretty much mainstream.
I love the games, but they are all easy! FFXI is not hard too, it is just time consuming and here we go back to your first statement:
'Nobody, especially me ever said time = skill'

if not time, then what is essential to complete all those games?

Skill is what you need in games like Musha Aleste, SF III and so on...
Skill is when you beat your game with a single coin in the arcade center.

RPG? easy....

I really wish to get a lot of cool content in FFXIV, lots and lots of rare things, hidden side quests, you name it. It would love the game more challenging but waking up in the middle of the night for a NM? NO thanks!

[Naylia]

Hardcore gamers specifically those of us on final fantasy have been life-long fans of Square Enix made games and been since FF1.

See, as just such a person I am old enough to have a job and a wife. Which means playing the game needs to involve something other than standing around waiting when I have the time to play. If you want to have HNMs that require 9999 Faction points to trigger, go right ahead, becasue at least then you are playing on your way there. And you can have your rare gear, because you can earn those faction points and trigger a before I can.

Casuals (like myself) are not asking that you make the content easy, we are just asking that there be a path to unlock/access the content. Content can be way cooler, than sitting around waiting for something to pop and hoping someone in my party spammed Enter fast enough to claim. That is actually anti-content....you may call that doing something...I call it doing nothing....and would rather the development team work on almost anything else in the game content wise.


But I also agree that we don't see enough of the old FF in the new versions. Dungeons used to be freaking deadly, it sucked to die, and you had to be careful and smart with how you played. That's the element we need carried forward from the old Final Fantasy's, not camping a pop location on a clock. There are a thousand better content ideas that still separate the men from the boys.


Sadly I was playing the original FF on my iPhone and it has been easy mode'd compared to intial NES release. It was harder than it is today. What happened to monsters that literally turned you to stone being frequently run into (in the latest release I haven't had to use a needle yet), or having to conserve your magic so that you had enough cures to make it not just to the boss, but also back out of the dungeon alive.