Thread: Some contents in 1.23 are better than ARR

Originally Posted by Fuddy

This is your problem right here. You think you can decide who should be able to play and who shouldn't. The problem is your attitude. I think some people think playing an MMO is a lifestyle choice :-P Do you do anything else other than play games?

The problem is on both sides of the fence.

On one hand, anyone that consider themselves remotely hardcore at any game always tends to place the genre on a pedestal. In this day and age, all of the information is laid out for you to have access to, not just limited to gaming, but life in general. People refuse to take advantage. People will always be terrible at things. MMOs are the same thing. This game is so easy when you look at it objectively that I don't consider anything that has to do with the actual mechanics of the game require any special set of skills that makes it something that only someone with knowledge and experience with MMOs can ever feasibly tackle. MMOs still require the same skills as any other game, plus an awareness of what other people are doing.

On the other side, everyone that's not an MMO player acts like people that are hardcore have no lives. I don't consider myself hardcore by any stretch of the imagination. I don't even like MMOs in most cases. However, I can watch a video, learn a pattern, and observe what other people are doing and not get wiped by Titan a million times. The only thing that I find time consuming by this is that most of the content later is just another facet of MMOs; you have to depend on other people and, just like in real life, they can screw you over repeatedly. People can call people nerds, say they have no lives, wipe groups repeatedly, and then can say that they don't have time to invest in learning a fight. 10 minute video should be all you need to one-shot half these fights, especially for people running around in complete i90s (minus lag checks).

As long as games exist, those two viewpoints are going to exist and the disconnect is going to cause "elitism," fabricated or not.

EDIT:

Originally Posted by LamiaTrucido

I like how you made a thread that you already made a thread about: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...broke-my-heart

Why do I keep falling victim to rehashed threads? -_-