The constant disbanding of Steps of Faith

[Lamentations]

Yeah is a huge issue in FFXIV , that if u miss the initial wave u are out , or have a static that help u ( i helped some of my static to do Steps since i did it on 1 day on DF)and i dont mind helping it takes 5 mins to do that trial.

Outside the first 2 days...no one bothers with main story dungeons and its a shame that its that way because this dungeons has no replay value , same goes for Fight on the Bridge fights , otuside a lucky trial roulette.....

And even then u have PF farming partys with no 100 soldiery , 1 fail = kick , no idea how to fix that

I agree.

You cannot condition casual people to play faceroll 1-50 duo with your chocobo solo leveling fate content, then force them to group with random hardcore players and expect them to get along.

Casual players, which I admittedly am, "need to stop" expecting hard core level loot drops unless they clear the required content, hardcore players need to stop defining "casual" players as bad.

The suggestion I saw that SE may have to force bad players out of the game to balance difficulty is hilarious, this would be financial suicide for XIV, SE knows it, this is "never" going to happen, casual, bad, good, hardcore, everybody's 13$ and 40$ is the same at the bank for SE.

These storyline clears grouping two totally different play style mindsets together, and then gating the possible sale of a 40$ expansion and perhaps the sub fee as well behind it was a bad idea, plain and simple.

They simply need to have two separate difficulty instances to suit both play styles, with rewards that reflect the effort involved, putting it out and then nerfing it just perpetuates the entitlement, or im better than you BS.

As someone else posted the really difficult content in this game belongs in EX instances as well as content like SCOB, and the rewards should reflect it, they could make storyline well written but no more difficult than the duo with your chocobo content and I doubt most people would really care, "casual or otherwise".