Agreed. Throughout Final Fantasy's long and glorious career, the games have continued to be aimed at pro-gamers, people who love the challenge. Since FF became an MMO (at least in recent years on FFXI) it's targeting players who I'll refer to as pansies. They think something's too difficult because they went through it once, failed, and never bothered to try again. I suppose most MMOs would rather their players just be bulked up with tons of content that they'll never bore of regardless of being so easy (like WoW). I think the easy content is a bore just going through it the first time, and getting whatever treasures from it isn't as rewarding, and those "elitists" who rule WoW shouldn't be considered elitists. I'm sure many on here will agree with me on that, I know plenty of people on the Bismarck server on FFXI did. It's the challenges of the game that makes elite players. I would like to see FFXIV as challenging as FFXI had been and then some. That would make for the perfect MMO imo.

It seems like SE just wants players for now though, which is understandable. FFXI didn't have the cred that WoW did. It took FFXI 6 years I believe to reach 2 million subscribers while WoW had 10 million in maybe about 3 years. So giving us content that's enjoyable and easy for now I'm not completely against, but I hope they give us plenty of challenging content when the PS3 release comes and we have to start paying a subscription fee. I've stuck with FFXIV since alpha, even on my laptop where the graphics lagged unbelievably. (I have a desktop now that's a lot better!) My hopes for this game have no dwindled a bit. But if FFXIV continues to target pansies like the WoW audience, I'm not sure I'll stick around very long. Each time I started up on WoW I could only play for maybe 2 months before boring of it and quitting for a year. I would hate it if FFXIV became just like that for me.