FFXIV ARR "Easy Mode"

[BlossomRose]

Because it's common sense that if you want to claim <content is too easy> you should <complete the content first>.

Expressing an opinion should only be done based on first-hand experience. Going <content is too easy> because <other people said so> isn't expressing an opinion or concern, it's giving in to crowd mentality.

I'm not saying people are wrong that the content is too easy. Not at all. I'm in one of those 40-minute clear groups. But I'm saying trying to claim it's too easy when you haven't even done it yet is silly and pointless, and people can, and will, and will be justified to, laugh in your face for it.

It is no different from any other conversation subjects. If you haven't actually seen something, how can you talk about it? Repeating what others told you?

[BlossomRose]

Do please continue, I like using the forums' report feature and seeing posts disappear mysteriously as their posters vanish for a while too.

More seriously, keep digging your hole, it's only making you look worse and worse. The facts are: you chose to complain something was too easy, and a cursory glance revealed you hadn't even done that thing. Therefore your opinion it's too easy can't be trusted, since you have no first-hand experience of the thing you're complaining about.

Goes for RL too, you can't complain that driving an 18wheeler is too easy if you've never done it. The drivers might make it look easy, and maybe it IS for all I know, but you're still in no position to make that judgment call.

[LavellaNyteshade]

Do please continue, I like using the forums' report feature and seeing posts disappear mysteriously as their posters vanish for a while too.

More seriously, keep digging your hole, it's only making you look worse and worse. The facts are: you chose to complain something was too easy, and a cursory glance revealed you hadn't even done that thing. Therefore your opinion it's too easy can't be trusted, since you have no first-hand experience of the thing you're complaining about.

Just beat T1-T3 a couple days after ur ridiculous comment, and first time I tried it too. Would've had T4 if DD group was better. Just because you find the game difficult, doesnt mean it is. Why so mad? Now what you have to say? I sure hope your not an adult since your so proud you can tattle on a post lol. If you don't like the heat...well, ya know. Get off the forums and go do half of what Ive done before you comment on me mr 356 posts XD

[NarwhalShadowsun]

There is a valid point buried somewhere in this thread. The issue isn't really that coil is the only content in the game, the issue is that CT is going to be completely useless content. The direction of making -easier- content to bridge into Coil is NOT the direction this game needs. It's something they had planned from the start but foresight after launch should tell them that it's a huge problem.

If you want some perspective, FFXIV is my friend's first MMORPG. He had no clue how to play it, was confused while leveling, ect. He's now cleared up to Turn 3 in Binding Coil. He managed to learn the game as a total beginner to the genre, and now he is half cleared the content that is the highest level content for the next, what, six months? Crystal Tower cannot launch as easier content than coil or the game might actually just die. Which is a shame, because despite it's glaring flaws It's managed to be a very good experience thus far, and even pulled in some of my pickier MMO friends.

[l33tbmb]

There is a valid point buried somewhere in this thread...

This is about how I feel as well. It's disappointing to me that the entirety of the game until 50 is basically the tutorial for the actual game which only happens when you've "run out of things to do." I'm at an impasse, I really enjoyed the fact that capping your character WAS the challenge in other MMOs and hitting that cap really felt like an achievement. I don't like the change where you're ushered to cap ASAP to start grinding out gear. On the other hand, I'm no longer a kid with all the time in the world. I enjoy the speed at which I can accomplish things in XIV. I enjoy that I can come home from work and actually achieve some of the end game content that I wouldn't be able to do in a more hardcore MMO. So I don't know what to say... if they chose to increase the level cap in the future, I hope they do so in a way that makes you earn it rather than just handing it to you.

[NarwhalShadowsun]

I agree. I do enjoy that I don't have to play 24/7 to enjoy what the game has to offer, that being said, when I do sit down with a few friends to tackle a dungeon I expect a challenge. AK/WP ect, were sufficient challenge when I was a fresh 50, now that I'm overgeared for them it's not so much, but that's understandable. However, I can see myself hitting Coil relatively soon with my playgroup (Who is already at Turn 3), and if we complete it to Turn 5 before Crystal Tower comes out I'm not sure what to say. That's poor design, it's not even casual. I play casually, my friends play casually, and end game bosses are being farmed each week. Not really sure what can be done about that with their current content plan.