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

[Litre]

No, he's purely trolling, probably the first of a flood of players since maintenance began... The game is successful ---> therefore it is perfect ---> nothing needs to be changed... Haha love that rational reasoning right! It's ok for him, therefore it must be ok for everyone, since he is the only person in the world!

Anyways back to the topic, please remember and read carefully the OP msg, that many of you are biased based on your skill level, there is already a noticeable exodus of players, if not players leaving, just players playing less and less, nobody cares anymore. The hardcore players are unhappy because they can't help other players and there's no fruits for their labor, and the casuals are unhappy because there are mechanics roadblocks they can't pass easily.


Then there's a bunch of mainstream players who either enjoy it as it currently is, likely because there is still doable content they can clear and have yet to. Or are slowly getting frustrated by wiping from honest mistakes by other players, with no chance of salvaging the fight. Especially as they start farming some primals or early coil, where mechanics become even more unforgiving.


If they don't add more content that casual players can access, or at the very least content that mainstream players can help casual players with, there will be no community to keep them from finding a more accessible game.

[Gormogon]

Anyways back to the topic, please remember and read carefully the OP msg, that many of you are biased based on your skill level, there is already a noticeable exodus of players, if not players leaving, just players playing less and less, nobody cares anymore. The hardcore players are unhappy because they can't help other players and there's no fruits for their labor, and the casuals are unhappy because there are mechanics roadblocks they can't pass easily.

If they don't add more content that casual players can access, or at the very least content that mainstream players can help casual players with, there will be no community to keep them from finding a more accessible game.

Totally.

Yet one of the things I learned from the other MMO's I've played is that all that hard work amounts to nothing. Replacing a group of friends just to play with another more skilled and capable group of individuals that may or may not become your friends isn't really gratifying for me. It was simply just another experience with a different group, akin to having a change of class the following semester and not being put in the same class room with your actual long term friends.

I don't need to force myself and progress and stress over it. If there is a roadblock there that stops the people I play with from progressing I can do my best to pull more weight or simply accept that the roadblock is there and the party will eventually break and all I can do is simply put that time into something else which is what I've been doing. I didn't have much to do between 2.2-2.28 once I finished my Animus outside of that all I had was beast tribe dailies and soldiery farm then nothing but free time for me to play other games inbetween.