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

[RentisB]

I've been saying this to my friends the few times I've logged in lately. (yeah I'm about over 14 for now) I'm far from the "start new raid the week it's released" hardcore but I consider myself mostly hardcore. I only beat Titan EX recently and that was because I didn't even ATTEMPT it because I didn't want to deal with OTHER people. Sure I'm human and I make mistakes but I tend to pick up new fights pretty quick(I stopped dying on our third wipe and haven't died since) I guess that makes me "skilled" but I was bored out of my mind because it wasn't "fun," like at all.

I haven't bothered with the second turn because it's all just more of the same in a different coat of paint to me. I do think these scripted events do need to exist, but EVERY fight is just lazy imo. Also personally I don't think amazing memories should really count as "skill"... Guess that's just gonna piss people off.


How about "should I use this move or this one right now?" There's almost NONE of that once you've got it memorized, and that's why I'm so bored. Adaptability? forget it. It's learn or die and start over.

I played FF11 for most of a decade and I don't remember it ever being "easy" until Abyssea >.> Y'all are nuts. Sure most fights could be won with just throwing people at it but a lot of them could also be done with a minimal group of very skilled players. I also played WoW a lot and I think the raids there have a nice mix of scripts and random stuff. *shrug* I just think it's WAY too far in one direction right now.

I think simply writing this person off as a casual apologist is a serious mistake if this game is going to have longevity.