Leaving the game

[HakuroDK]

Honestly, the only time I ever legitimately, genuinely wish people the best when posting these threads is if they are very polite and are leaving due to real-life reasons despite wanting to continue to play.

Threads like this are just so... shallow. Enjoy whatever game you go to next, because every time you leave an MMO, all you're doing is just reducing your options for the next time.

[Killabye]

I guess the games hard, it's really just a memorized dance that if you havent memorized it you get treated like shit. I'm an old gamer but I play cod and get 30-10 kd ratio, I'm good at video games. I'm not good at memorizing boss fight after boss fight while being dependant on 7 other players. I really wanna stay playing ff cause it looks so cool compared to when I played 7 in 6th grade but if it's just this I might try something else

[Killabye]

And everyone that says its not hard, yeah going to work everyday and being a contributing member of society is hard, being a fuckstick in a video game thinking you're good cause it's your life, yeah that really isn't hard

[Elim]

Sorry to hear you're leaving based off of that, OP. I'm sure you'll find a MMO that suits you some day since there's so many to choose from.

And everyone that says its not hard, yeah going to work everyday and being a contributing member of society is hard, being a fuckstick in a video game thinking you're good cause it's your life, yeah that really isn't hard

My raid leader is a pharmacist. My raid group has both people who work full time and people in school/higher education and we consider most content easy. This generalization of "all good gamers have no life" is a joke. I'm starting to think some people say it because they're jealous. :/

[AiChyan]

My raid leader is a pharmacist. My raid group has both people who work full time and people in school/higher education and we consider most content easy. This generalization of "all good gamers have no life" is a joke. I'm starting to think some people say it because they're jealous. :/

I work full time, and my progress is slow in the game but the "road blocks" I have are the same as the people who dedicate hours of their day to the game. Difficult content requires learning and it takes time to learn, and just because I don't have the luxury of time to learn much I don't stress myself out over it and mark the game is unplayable/difficult. There is so much stuff to do anyway

[i2agnarok]

And everyone that says its not hard, yeah going to work everyday and being a contributing member of society is hard, being a fuckstick in a video game thinking you're good cause it's your life, yeah that really isn't hard

I call BS.
If you can memorize a map, where shit spawns, and where people are going to be camping you, you can memorize "hey, this boss always does this mechanic that kills me after x move" and not die.

If you're remotely "good" at a video game, memorizing the boss fight should be the least of your concerns, especially when knowledge on basically every single one of them is easily accessible.
I can spend 5-10 minutes learning a fight and not repeatedly die to the same exact thing.
The only legitimate concern in your entire post is depending on 7 other people.
THAT part sucks and at that point its not you holding everyone back.
"I can dodge an extremely predictable attack," does not translate to "I can dodge an extremely predictable attack only because I play this game 21 hours a day and I'm awesome at life because of it."

Even without a guide, how can you NOT notice that y move comes after x move and still get hit repeatedly? That's a fundamental of gaming.

EDIT: MGS will tell you to unplug the controller if you use the Codec. It tells you in the game. -_-

[Mcshiggs]

"I can dodge an extremely predictable attack only because I play this game 21 hours a day and I'm awesome at life because of it."

I have a bumper sticker on my car that has this exact quote on it.

[i2agnarok]

I have a bumper sticker on my car that has this exact quote on it.

Do you also have Titan's corpse spray-painted on the car?

[Yumi_umi]

It's odd that SE put so much rng in everything except boss mechanics.
Like in monster hunter games you can have the best gear but you would still need to be cautious as the monster can surprisingly combo and kill you with something you normally would dodge/ block.
The monsters were predictable but to an extent where you couldn't just face roll and do a "dance" .
It's going to be rough in the later years of ff14arr as all the other players will have left and only the endgame raiders will be left where everyone knows everyone and all content that is not coil/ whatever is the highest / up to date primals will be forgotten.
I blame all these near 1 shot kill attacks that bosses do.
It's asking way too much for most of the playerbase lol hence y there are a lot of complaining threads? :0

[Karnyboy]

I'm confused...for the most part I've completed all the content except for coil and extreme modes. those I accept aren't easy one pass instances. Soooo why are you complaining about optional content?