Quote Originally Posted by Velhart View Post
So, just having the boss sitting there and doing nothing is...better?
Quote Originally Posted by Edli View Post
Every game has mechanics. Is what makes them games. Maybe mechanic wasn't the right term to use there? Maybe say that you hate mechanics that instantly kill you or something like that. Just saying mechanics in general on a boss battle suck is a strange thing to say.
I think the point Quesse was making that the way the mechanics are implemented in FFXIV suck.

Its basically playing Simon. Memorize the pattern (which never changes so we're already worse off than Simon), move to the spot at the right time while spamming a macro to do DPS.

Randomized mechanics would be far more engaging and entertaining, but that would require thinking and not be something people could faceroll, so the majority of players nowadays would never support it. Those of us who grew up on older MMO's and know what a real challenge was back then compared to the cakewalk MMO's are today though, would likely welcome a chance to get back to some of the old ways here and there.

You know, to earn the drops rather than pretty much have them handed to use for doing a pre-ordained step by step dance.

MMO players today have it sooooo easy, and yet whine they've got it "oh so bad". Pfft. No you dont.