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

[EmiliM]

It's rather heartening to see the thread also gaining a fair bit of traction in the Japanese forums as well. If anything, there appears to be a ton of pent-up frustration all around.

It is unlikely any dev will ever respond to this thread or the Japanese one (to do so would be the equivalent of acknowledging this as an issue, which opens up a whole new can of worms). But I have faith they're being read and monitored and at the very least is giving them something to think about.

I mean if casuals are the majority of the player base, then more often than not(due to elitist/hardcores sticking to statics and fc/ls i would imagine) wouldn't most of the people you run into would be casual? (...) It's kinda stereotypical for all you casuals and middle people to blame the hardcore for everything, when more than likely you're running into other casuals and middle grounders.

Consider, if you will, the following:

Player A clears the Second Coil with his/her static weekly, including T9. This player has already obtained the best gear there is to get for his/her job.

Player B, who - for all intent and purposes - is just as "skilled" as the person above and actually plays twice as much, cannot clear coil because he/she cannot find a static/pug with 7 other players who possesses the same level of "skill" to clear the content with. Thus, this person is stuck with other "lesser skilled" players, who are often labeled as "casuals".

Does Player B qualify as "hardcore"? Or is this person a "casual" who "cries" too much about contents needing adjustment? What if Player A later loses his/her static because some people quit and he/she falls into the same situation as Player B? "The second person needs to find a better group" certainly would sound like a nice answer, if only it wasn't something that everyone is already doing.

It would be nice if everyone neatly fit into categories like "all you casuals" or "us hardcores", wouldn't it? It would be so much easier to oversimplify the issue.