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

[SpookyGhost]

What is with XIV players and self boasting and their enthusiasm for excuses to replace their inability to proof that their claims is more than just a delusion? It's bloody every where! Is this some kind of plague? I pray I never get infected with this!

There's this thing that's kinda universal, doesn't really apply solely to XIV, where people will say "I can do X and I will explain to you why it's too easy/too hard/too whatever... but I haven't actually done it". While this game really is easy enough where there's a very low barrier of entry for even the hardest of content (FCoB/Savage), you still have to actually do it for your thoughts on it to hold any weight. You can have an opinion, sure, but people aren't really going to take you seriously if you go "T13 is really easy" and haven't cleared it. Half the battle in MMOs is finding a static of competent people, if you can't manage that then the fight might as well be the hardest thing in human history.

[siverstorm]

There's this thing that's kinda universal, doesn't really apply solely to XIV, where people will say "I can do X and I will explain to you why it's too easy/too hard/too whatever... but I haven't actually done it". While this game really is easy enough where there's a very low barrier of entry for even the hardest of content (FCoB/Savage), you still have to actually do it for your thoughts on it to hold any weight. You can have an opinion, sure, but people aren't really going to take you seriously if you go "T13 is really easy" and haven't cleared it. --snip

This trend literally exists in every thread related to this topic. And it's bordering on hilarity at this point. Half of the time I feel that the sole purpose of those comments are to provoke arguments to devolve the thread further into some "toxic elitists vs casual scrubs" rage fest to just butt heads for hours.