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

[Gormogon]

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The sad part is that difficulty enforces the attitude and it is the same player base that forced the end-game circle to only smaller and smaller and they don't want to realize it (FFXI and 1.0 paints a perfect picture of what this kind of attitude leads too.). Then again devs also help enforce it by caving in but they could have avoided it by finding ways to make it overall enjoyable experience and we see these walls everywhere and it never ends in sunshine but always in word flinging drama.

We can't break the cycle if we keep repeating it.