Ashamed

[Omskahn]

This happened with my last MMO. People continually wanted everything made easy. Content all needed to he soloable, while giving out the top raid rewards. The entire game became soloable, including 12 man raids. Now the game has to close servers and fire staff because it's failing.

Same with me actually. I came from guild wars 2, which went from possibly being a grand adventure direction with challenging content to go along with its awesome movement/combat system, to the fantasy dress up, zerker only direction.

I came to FFXIV because of the more difficult content, and the fact that you actually have to rely on party members to complete challenges.

I wonder if I'll have to be moving on to another game or even genre soon...?

[EA9Sol]

I don't mind challenging. I picked monk for that very reason. So, much qqing going on around here. FF 14 is not that hard, but not too easy. I want a middle ground. Easy to get into hard to master. Where did the learning curve go? :/

[Radacci]

i lost it at: generating aggro is so hard.

[RentisB]

While a lot of the questions were, well questionable, you also have to realize they pick which ones to answer. I'm sure there were just as many in depth biting questions that for whatever reason they chose to not answer, be it spoilers, or just evasiveness. They also avoided several touchy subjects in favor of safe ones, as usual PR goes.

Actually playing in the game I have not seen anywhere near as much whining as I have on the internet. Be sad for the people who want the easy street game but no need to be ashamed since it's obviously not going to happen. He answered the easy ones to appease them.

[Teslo]

You'd think you were done finding nuts and baskets, then 2 more quests would pop up asking for more of the same.

These moogles really need to learn to keep better track of their nuts. At one point I was holding not one, not two, but five nuts! What kind of moogle has five nuts, anyway!? Insanity.

[Kallera]

Even if some responses are a bit wierd,like aether currents, I'm not exactly interested in defending the op here. you have to admit a lot of learning a player's role lies outside of the game. Gaining connections and clears in a casual fc can help.

[Dante_V]

I agree 100% and this can even be seen by browsing the topics on this board. 500 topics of bards complaints (complaints and opinion are fine but a new topic everyday is completely unnecessary.) or even mindless things like "all ranged classes are casters now" or "I'm unhappy because I can't have an aetheryte in hinterlands and it takes too long to leave Iydlshire. It is definitely spoiled child syndrome.

[Raxiaz]

I play this game damn near every day all day and my only concern with the game is that I just don't seem to have as much fun playing it sober as opposed to drunk or high...

[Zabuza]

It is unfortunate, but I can already see this going the route of WoW. At first, gaining success, but with that success comes the huge crowd of mainstream gamers, after which SE gradually caves in to the whiner's demands, little by little. Years later, the fun evaporates, the content becomes a casual void, and there's nothing left to do. No depth to the game.

Perhaps it will be different here since we get content every few months instead of a every year. I hope it is different.

[Kallera]

It is unfortunate, but I can already see this going the route of WoW. At first, gaining success, and then gradually caving in to the whiner's demands, little by little. Then, the fun evaporates, the content becomes a casual void, and there's nothing left to do.

Perhaps it will be different here since we get content every few months instead of a every year. I hope it is different.

You can also lose an audience going the other way. What SE is doing is balancing their demands against how much time it has been since the content has been out.

Player suggestions are not simply taken in a vacuum, there's also player metrics to consider.

Simply blowing off others in an attempt to "purify the bads" from the gaming crowd will result in the game "failing" as well.