Make FFXIV more like FFXI and less like WoW

[Divinemight]

Attitudes like that lead to a growing divide between gaming communities. We're all 'real' gamers. I don't think I can continue a discussion beyond that point if you're elevating one group above others so blatantly.

You are perfectly knowing what I am referring to. The gaming mechanics like Duty Finder (LFG and LFR) gradually destroying the gaming community from the root. Do we really need Duty Finder? No, we do not. It is a tool created for casual playing, those who are not willing to invest time into mmorpg and to live into a virtual gaming community.

You can not ignore that fact that Blizzard and WoW has created a generation of gamers that want everything to be hand to them on a silver plate. This post WoW generation of gamers create very unpleasnt gaming experience for others. Self-proclaim to be a casual gamer with actual hardcore gaming mindset.

[Hyrist]

You are perfectly knowing what I am referring to. The gaming mechanics like Duty Finder (LFG and LFR) gradually destroying the gaming community from the root. Do we really need Duty Finder? No, we do not. It is a tool created for casual playing, those who are not willing to invest time into mmorpg and to live into a virtual gaming community.

You can not ignore that fact that Blizzard and WoW has created a generation of gamers that want everything to be hand to them on a silver plate. This post WoW generation of gamers create very unpleasnt gaming experience for others. Self-proclaim to be a casual gamer with actual hardcore gaming mindset.

If you think Blizzard and WoW created that generation of gamers, you're sorely mistaken and ignorant of the larger picture. You neglect to acknowledge the fact that the gaming community has exploded in population in the last fifteen years, and MMOs are not the sole culprit to this. Matchmaking existed in Halo, and other FPS and grouped multiplayer games as well.

You paint a very dangerously broad brush about the varying and complex issues about entitlement and declining maturity in the gaming community. And that you try to pin anyone who grew up previously to that generation as 'true gamers' it's quite frankly appalling to me because I feel that this accusatory attitude you take with it means you wash your hands of your contributions to the problem as well. This is our community, and if you wish to speak for the community then we also need to take responsibility of the community. This means assuming a conduct that's productive to the community. This looking down thing is not helping the problem you're citing. The fact that you're supposed to not wash your hands of this due to disliking features such as the duty finder, and try to actively participate in making such encounters as pleasant as possible is in fact contributing to it.

What Square Enix could do to help is offer more easily accessible social tools to enable players to engage one another better, not remove tools that make the game more accessible. What we can do is engage the community in a positive manner and get people out of their social shells. Our self-defensive reflexes from being part of the older generation of games keep wanting us to push away from something we should have been welcoming guiding towards for years. We perpetuate this problem as well, and rather than stare at it bitterly, we need to be proactive in helping turn it around.