Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

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I do not agree with this guy, and I think he is everything wrong with the game's population.

He basically wants crystal tower. Where "oh you messed up? Well we'll just raise you and we're good as new. la de dah". Thats BORING. Challenging mechanics where if you mess it up you DIE are fun. Because when you win, it doesn't feel like you just spent time in a long ass grind, it feels like you deserved it.

And people are complaining that you can do coil in lower tier gear if you can deal with the mechanics? READ THAT AS YOU CAN DO CONTENT IF YOU ARE SKILLED, NOT IF YOU ARE BUFFED OUT ON GEAR. Jesus, imagine if you were playing Starcraft and you started with double the workers because you had more "gear" compared to another player. NO. Ideally the game should be 100% skill based. Do you know how boring T4 is now that you can just faceroll it with crazy gear? Or T1 even. And this guy prides T1 and T4 as being awesome and T5 as bad because you actually need to do something in the turn? Is this a joke? Is this what mainstream players really want?

And he wants tokens for dungeon entries? Have any of you guys actually played 1.0 ffxiv? Collecting tapers and stuff for iffy was BORING. SO GODDAM BORING. Practising in coil is FUN. Because if you are not winning, it means it is HARD, so when you do win, you'll feel a sense of ACCOMPLISHMENT.

Please take your easy mode content and shove it elsewhere. Do not ruin the game for the rest of us who actually enjoy a challenge.

I did not interpret it in this way. I think he's looking for a middle ground and more of a diversified field of various types of fights, instead of just excessively hard or excessively easy (which is the current). He made it a note to constantly mention that it's fights against mechanics instead of just general "tough" fights that existed in FFXI. To that end it limits the playing field of who you want to go with. Do you want to go with your best friend, whos awesome as a person but really bad at the game? Or do you want to go with your LS/FC mate who you barely know, but know him or her to be amazing at dodging mechanics and good at their role? Of course you will want to go with the person who knows how to dodge things, because you want to win. In short, the further the game moves into higher and higher difficulty, the further away it moves from being social-friendly environment. Keep in mind he made mention of him having successes in Second Coil, so it's not like he's completely devoid of care when it comes to doing hardcore content.

Tell you what though, I completely agree with you on T4. That fight was fun as hell to tackle during 2.0~2.1, because of how well everyone had to be on point to ensure success. Essentially it became a fight where gear did not matter at all outside of a simple DPS check. Now you can simply faceroll it with gear and obtain easy reward.