Coil mode for main story

[Noahlimits]

"Grow up" coming from a person that "works" on a video-game.



Cool. Looking forward to beat Turn 5 in 6/6/2014.

(yes I'm getting bitter)

Every single piece of content / dungeon they add to this game has some lore behind it. This isn't WoW (hate to have to use wow as an example since everyone does) where 90% of the time you aren't even sure why you're doing a raid / quest. Most if not all dungeons have at least have some lore associated with it. With that being said, why is it wrong they want to make it difficult to start with and easy mode later on? They want people to feel achievement by seeing and reading what happens next in the story.. if it were easy, would you still feel that achievement? /shrug I guess it's just a difference of opinion between us.

Either way, I'm all for how they're instituting it (hard at first, ezmode buffs later).

[Nici]

In the future, instead of creating easy modes of dungeons the team plans to add powerful buffs to players that will make difficult dungeons (including Binding Coil of Bahamut) easier to complete.

See....if enough people make their voices heard loud enough the Devs will listen, and they will think of a better solution to the problem than having to work on a whole new easier version of the content.

Thank you Hvinire for the information!

[EvokerKeii]

See....if enough people make their voices heard loud enough the Devs will listen, and they will think of a better solution to the problem than having to work on a whole new easier version of the content.

Thank you Hvinire for the information!

With all due respect, and I may be missing the sarcasm of your post but
WHAT!?
That's the same thing people have been saying for the last 6 pages! Suddenly a mod says it and it's listening to the players?

[Nici]

With all due respect, and I may be missing the sarcasm of your post but
WHAT!?
That's the same thing people have been saying for the last 6 pages! Suddenly a mod says it and it's listening to the players?

lol now now...i wasn't being sarcastic at all, if you read somewhere back in one of the pages i mentioned in one of my posts i am casual/hardcore, i found this thread discussion really informative and entertaining to say the least, some people from both camps made very good valid arguments...cept the watch the storyline thing on youtube...that's just dumb period, I was not either for or against either side of the argument...i just thought there should be a better solution for the casual player base to experience the "optional" part of the story line...and what do you know a mod came in and let us know something will be in the works!...yay.

[TrystWildkey]

In the future, instead of creating easy modes of dungeons the team plans to add powerful buffs to players that will make difficult dungeons (including Binding Coil of Bahamut) easier to complete.

Wow, we got a dev reply O.O I did not expect that! Thanks Hvinire You get a happy Lala dance!

Also, I guess this settles the recently brought up point regarding development time. However, I am still left with no understanding of why something like this would devalue anyone else's experience. (I'm also wondering what the time frame is for this, but, alas, I guess I will have to wait )

Also, sincere thanks to everyone in this thread who kept the discussion an actual discussion. As exasperated as I sometimes got, I'm very proud that the vast majority of us here did not resort to mudslinging or personal insults. And now that I think of it, finding people like that in game is another reason why I keep playing ^^

[Falcus]

However, I am still left with no understanding of why something like this would devalue anyone else's experience.

It makes it easier which in turn makes the win feel less satisfying. That can devalue other player's experiences. Unless of course if it's an option you can toggle on/off but if that happened there would need to be some form of penalty for using the buffs unless most people would just refuse to do the normal mode without buffs in anyway.
But yeah making it easier can devalue other people's experience who enjoy the challenge. I personally really enjoy shmups. If I had the harder difficulties taken out of the games I played then I would get bored fast and just not bother to play anymore. Just wouldn't be fun.
Perhaps not the best example though as the difficulty in those games is part of what makes me love them.

[ForteXX]

In the future, instead of creating easy modes of dungeons the team plans to add powerful buffs to players that will make difficult dungeons (including Binding Coil of Bahamut) easier to complete.

Would be nice if they also made an option to go in without the buff so things can be run at their normal difficulty for those that want it at least.

[Antanias]

Would be nice if they also made an option to go in without the buff so things can be run at their normal difficulty for those that want it at least.

This x100

Or at least, if this isn't feasible, maybe apply the buff to older content with each expansion.

[Darki]

Would be nice if they also made an option to go in without the buff so things can be run at their normal difficulty for those that want it at least.

Agreed. Some of the best games have difficulty settings. Not ones that are imposed, but ones that are *chosen*.