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

[Iriadysa]

This game has 2000 hours of casual content and 2 hours of hardcore content, and the developers are catering to the elitists? Are you for real?

Without some difficult content, this is a Final Fantasy-flavored Second Life. Nobody should want that.

This is the argument I've been trying to explain to the numbheads that keep posting here, but the answer is either empty rhetoric, victimist end of the world preaching or a list of content that according to them is not casual enough (check that post by the guy with the BLM hat).

Apparently CT and coil 1 are "semi hardcore".

With views like that it's simply impossible to reconcile a middle ground because for these people something like CT or Coil 1 is already hard content. For any player with any semblance of skill, today's CT and Coil 1 are filler faceroll content.

Now, it's good that a game has filler easy mode semi rewarding content. It gives us something to do when we are bored and have no one competent to play with. We push the nifty DF button and there we have it, an instant raid that may give you a piece for one of your alt jobs. It also allows us to help friends that may be at a previous tier when it comes to end game. That this content exists is a good thing.

However, making all the top content like this is not.

The rest of the thread is filled with people trying to cover their complains with absurd logic and circle jerking ("omg, someone that thinks like me!" "omg, trying to reason with elitists is impossible!").

As I said before: this is the voracious casual crowd wanting to take the last 10% of the game that isn't casual. And apparently everyone else is toxic for not agreeing.