Hard Mode {Found It}

[origamikitsune]

Indeed, rewards would be nice. But I have to ask - and I really don't mean this as an insult - but can I really be the only person out there who likes to do stuff for the sake of taking pride in what I did? That enjoys the difficulty of figuring out how to do it without looking it up on some walk-through wiki? I do understand that fundamentally this game is like every other game ever - beating the snot out of the other guy and taking his shit - but is it really too much to wish that the gamer community took pride in the GAME of the game? And is it too much to hope the FF players at least would take pride in doing something well - just as much as taking pride in the what they got out of it?

/whips off Rose-colored Glasses
"Man, all this whining really makes me red!"

All jokes aside, I hope you guys see the point I'm trying to make (and I hope you realize I don't mean it as an attack against different play styles)

[Rentahamster]

can I really be the only person out there who likes to do stuff for the sake of taking pride in what I did?

The problem with that is that doing hard stuff for the sake of challenge is meaningless if other players are not all held to the same standard of gameplay.

Self-imposed challenges are all useless in the world at large. The only time that they have meaning is when used in stuff like speed runs, since everyone else who participates in the challenge is held to the same standard.