Is this game too easy?

[Adelard]

Discuss. I want to hear your thoughts. I'm level 50, but haven't had a chance to do all end game content yet. I'm hoping for a real challenge. Something which makes your group wipe over and over, before you make any progress.
How are the raids in general?

[Evenstar]

Coil is well tuned, rest is a bit too easy and a bit too grindy, but that is how MMO's are

[KaedrianLiang]

For a post WoW era type of MMO, this has a fair difficulty. Overwhelming majority of other online game developers have taken the "make it easy so everyone can play it" approach. While FFXIV is certainly less grindy than traditionally designed MMO's, it still isn't for everyone.

In my opinion the definition of MMORPG is "Not for Everyone."

Difficulty? Fair.

[Canadane]

It has a lot of easy content, some mid content (extreme primals) that can't always be learned on your first go but not impossible to get down at all, and then some of the more difficult content that has a higher learning curve, (second coil) and then of course, some rather hardcore stuff (savage coil).

[SpookyGhost]

Greatly depends on you and your group's skill level. Some people only find Savage 7 hard, some people find Titan HM and beyond hard.

[maxthunder1]

Every aspect of the game is easy the only hard thing is finding 7 other competent players

[Exstal]

Every aspect of the game is easy the only hard thing is finding 7 other competent players

So game is hard for players who aren't good? Which is majority of the players? So game isn't easy.

[Fyrebrand]

Difficulty level can be very subjective. There are a lot of factors that go into it. How well geared are you? How well do you know the fight / how much practice do you have? How long have you been playing MMOs / FFXIV / games in general? What is your character's role in this content? How would your team mates answer these questions? How is the group communicating?

It's not fair or objective to look at content you've been farming over and over, and say it's "easy." It may be easy for you right now, but the devs shouldn't be gearing their difficulty based on how it will play several months after release for someone who's already beaten it 30+ times. Titan was not "easy" the first time you went in there for your story quest.

Not long ago, I got Sunken Temple of Qarn for dungeon roulette. Both DPS were a couple of newbies who had immense difficulty, especially on the boss who casts Doom where you have to step on the glowing tiles to dispel it. After explaining to them what they were supposed to do, they still struggled and we had a few wipes. Even on what ended up being our successful attempt, both DPS died and it was up to just me and the tank to finish off the boss. One of the DPS commented something like "You guys are amazing, I don't know how you can be so good at this." I just told him the honest truth: "No, we have practice."

[Arkanethered]

I find the player base more challenging than the content.

[Kallera]

I find the player base more challenging than the content.

This, the game is a fair difficulty, though I would say the difficulty curve gets steepened when you factor in a certain lack of community.