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

[Neptune]

Oh, but I like this game. Isn't it obvious that would be the only feasible reason that would keep me writing this at 15 minutes to 3am? And more than like it, I enjoy it. But it's like with the country in which I live, I choose to be very vocal with criticism, because I believe that if everybody does that, it ultimately will be better, but I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. (Well, perhaps if Michele Bachmann wins the presidency, but that's another story.)

And you are right in many of the things that you point out in the post I quote above. I still believe that it is up to us to keep the level up. It's like with the theater, when you start applauding crap, it becomes the rule. Didn't you see that they actually thought they could get away with the material they launched with??

Seriously though as a gamer you owe it to yourself to try other games. Now's the perfect time to chill on FFXIV whilst experiencing some truly revolutionary gameplay courtesy of Demon's Souls. Not only that, but those servers won't be online forever, maybe not even in another few months. Best to give it a go while you can.

[Tempestmoon]

Everyone needs to give this convo a rest and just wait for the game to catch up. Once they build the rock solid base for new players they will work on more medium content and then more hardcore endgame content. But it's not going to happen until they completely deck out the lower levels and bring those new players in with the PS3 launch. After that I have no doubt you will be amazed what they bring out next. This game has so much potential in the plot. With the imperials and who knows what else. Eorzea is only one Continent in the game and future expansions will no doubt have in depth hard content. The issue is, we all started playing a broken game, that was not balanced, or had appropriate content and they are playing catch up. Alot of players plowed through everything, taking advantage of every loop hole they could find(leve quest fail) and now they have nothing to do. Normally all this base work would be done by now and we would already be getting into the good and hard stuff.

Sit back enjoy the new content knowing that our time will come.

[Eekiki]

I don't give a crap of what people tells me. If the game becomes hardcore like FFXI,bye bye!!

Didn't you say this like six months ago?

You did! I remember you! You talked about how much you hate doing anything in a PT, and you'd quit unless SE made everything in the game soloable. You even did say "bye bye" and now you're back?

Ugh...

[Nero]

I don't give a crap of what people tells me. If the game becomes hardcore like it was pre ToAU FFXI,bye bye!!

Fixed it for you and /welcome back? I saw you complaining a lot and you actually told us like x-times that you quit. So you didnt quit at all and still enjoying this very sucky game? *sarcasm off*

[Rutelor]

Sit back enjoy the new content knowing that our time will come.

There's the rub. Do we really know that? But I appreciate what you say. So I'll give it a rest.

:-)

R

[Rutelor]

Now imagine doing that quest when you were level 75. Do you think it would have been challenging and exciting? Most of the people asking for this to be a challenge have multiple 50s and millions of gil. Its a bit difficult to make something designed for mid 20s a challenge for level 50s.

I did that quest with my newbie friends many times, after reaching cap (when cap was 75.) My point in the message you quote was not that it was a difficult fight, or voyage. What made it so valuable, was its organically standing as a rite of passage, a sine-qua-non to obtain the coveted license, when you were at the right level. As such it had the ability to generate cherished memories, and implant an emotional link in your brain. Even if your higher-level friends helped, the whole quest was a symbolic hurdle; it appeared as a logical chore, cohesive and seamless within the cosmogony of the game, and one that evinced enough care bestowed on it to detonate an unencumbered emotional reaction. It was also great that you had the option to buy the grass to complete the quest, since I am not against options. But then you knew you were taking a shortcut. Plus you still had to figure out why the chocobo would not take his third dose. Any way you chose to go, getting the grass was only part of it, and once finished, there was an evident sense of accomplishment, and satisfaction. Plus the reward was wonderful.

Compared to that, the quest I mention in the OP seems like a clumsily patched on afterthought, makeshift, dull, and with 0 emotional value. An equivalent quest in XI would've been the Onion Brigade task, which required from you to provide the Brigade some sort of "tail" to be completed. The tail ended up not being a real tail, but a so-called variety of asparagus that the Windurstian loved to eat pickled. But you would not know that until you talked to them with the (rather common) drop in your inventory. In the meantime, you would be trying to figure out how to detach a tail from the critters in Saruta Baruta. The reward was also very gratifying (the Justice Badge was a commonly equipped item, for the neck slot, all the way up to level 40, sometimes beyond.)

And that would be only the first quest within an organically developed series, which would keep you entertained well into level 50, and would provide you with the above-mentioned badge, (and another one towards the end of the series that would be quite valuable from level 50 onwards.)

There is a big difference there. In the meantime the bunch of Stuffed Dodos is still sun-tanning on their crowded corner, on the way to Nanawa

R