Casual player

[ispano]

But you don't. There are hundreds of games out there. And this game (like all other businesses) can pick a target demography and cater to them. This game could have been the: jRPG with English Port for Players Who Like Challenges. It could have even been FFXI-2 for those who like it. It could have been the FFXIV for people who hate FFXI. It could have been super hard-core-24-hour-NM-camp-1%-drop, or the 5-minute-100%-boost-to-99 game.

They choose to cater to 'everyone', and in the end may be end up making no one happy.

And yet, you do. What would happen if they fully catered to the casual base? The game would be FAR different than it is now, not an easier version of what we have. Basically, not the game they wanted to create. But if you cater to the upper end of gamers, that group is small, and while that group would love it, it won't sustain a game.