Please, Developers, Please! Put an end to Easy Mode thinking

[Cycloptichorn]

Seeing as I wasn't responding to you with the post I wrote, I have no idea where your fit of rage is coming from.

The idea that having a chocobo to ride around on isn't 'stimulating,' because there's no quest for it that is challenging for an r50 player, is ridiculous. I can't say it any clearer than that. The quest would last what, an hour or two? We don't even know because it's not out yet (not that this has stopped you from bitching about it). But you'll be riding around on the damn thing for hours and hours and hours. Is the method of delivery of the content really more important than the enjoyment the content itself brings you? I say no, it is not.

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Ok, I now realize you were the OP; and yes, I found your OP to be ridiculous as well. I'll give you the same advice as Doctor Mog: suck it up or quit. This constant whining that emanates from some players here is unbecoming.

[Rutelor]

Seeing as I wasn't responding to you with the post I wrote, I have no idea where your fit of rage is coming from.

The idea that having a chocobo to ride around on isn't 'stimulating,' because there's no quest for it that is challenging for an r50 player, is ridiculous. I can't say it any clearer than that. The quest would last what, an hour or two? We don't even know because it's not out yet (not that this has stopped you from bitching about it). But you'll be riding around on the damn thing for hours and hours and hours. Is the method of delivery of the content really more important than the enjoyment the content itself brings you? I say no, it is not.

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Ok, I now realize you were the OP; and yes, I found your OP to be ridiculous as well. I'll give you the same advice as Doctor Mog: suck it up or quit. This constant whining that emanates from some players here is unbecoming.

My friend, read my posting history. (I realize that that's a ridiculous thing to ask, was being purely rhetorical, so I'll abbreviate it here: I'm in total support of this game and its new development team, and I mean no harm. I have written time and again to support the new direction of the game and to plead for patience. I am of the believe that good things come to those who wait, and I don't for a second think, like the whiners do, that the development team is somewhere sitting in water at a spa, sipping sake. I urge patience, and a wait-and-see attitude.)

My main concerns, however have to do with the cumulative sense of a certain lack of challenge, a generically, non-layered, shallow attitude in determining the hurdles of the game, and I think I should write to give my feedback, because I am becoming really concerned about it. I don't think I'm being negative, nor am I a disrespectful poster. Not once did I write rage into the post I addressed to you, so I am as surprised as you were at my (mind you, non-existing) rage. I don't mind having a heated debate, though.

I am not saying that I won't enjoy HAVING the chocobo. I will. I want one as much as you do. I'm just saying that I wont ejoy GETTING it as much as I should. It's the desires that keep us moving in these games, it's our coveting and wanting that makes us have fun. Not the owing. As a matter of fact, think of it... you gloat and bask in the glory of your newly acquired items, and two weeks later they're routine and you've moved to desiring something new.

But I wasn't yelling at you. Sorry if I came the wrong way. (Perhaps I shouldn't use single capitalized words for emphasis.) I don't come here to yell at anybody.

R
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"And indeed, Nathaniel, each one of my desires and my longings has enriched me more than the always deceitful possession of the object of my desire"
André Gide The Fruits of Earth